Note: Yeah, I took my time to upload this one. I had a "writer block". I knew what I wanted in this chapter but I didn't know how to write it. Now that I'm done, I hope you like it.


Before Yukio could even react, small figures with tail and wicked smiles were already crowding the place. The weak but at the same time annoying goblins were ready to attack, laughing, but it wasn't funny at all. This situation was not funny at all.

"That girl is probably bleeding" Satoshi pointed out something more than obvious, but by the look of Rin's face, Yukio guessed it wasn't that obvious for him.

"Most likely" Yukio stood up and took out his guns from his pockets, ready to exterminate some goblins, at least the ones who were closer to him, so he could go on and aid Shiemi.

This extermination is not supposed to take long, five minutes maximum if Shura and the rest of the students help. And hopefully Shiemi just had a couple of scratches and bruises and...

"Tsk!"

That sound, followed by Rin's voice shouting a long "Shiemi!", and this same noise fading out made Yukio clench his teeth. He turned around just to see the obvious: Rin jumped into the trench to help Shiemi, even though he didn't have any experience... or anything.

To make things worse, Satoshi stared at Yukio for a moment, then at the hole on the floor, then at Yukio again.

"I'll go" He said "I'm not helpful here"

"Huh?"

"I'm a doctor –a student... but I can help. I can give first aid to that girl"

Yukio was about to complain, but Satoshi already jumped in a moment of bravery, or most likely, of stupidity. By the expression of his face, Yukio could realize what Satoshi was thinking, and it was something like "Just do it, don't think about it. Just do it, don't think about it...".

Lance fell into a bunch of old and humid wood, which hurt him rather than cushion his falling. He growled in pain and then stood up with a lot of effort, just to realize he couldn't see anything, and that Shiemi wasn't there anymore, neither Rin.

"Damn, that guy's fast!" He whispered to himself.

He searched through his pockets until finding his cellphone. He unlocked the keyboard and pressed it every five seconds, so the light that the screen gives won't turn off and to keep the keyboard from locking itself again. When he felt comfortable with the lighting, he began to walk around the place to find that pair of kids.

"Hello?... Hello...?" He asked, praying in his head so his voice won't attract any kind of demons. He didn't even have his pepper-spray/holy water with him, so he was defenseless.

A series of sounds that suggested a battle, or an evasion of a battle, reached Lance's ears. It came from the darkness and not from the floor above him, so they probably were that stubborn black-haired kid with his blond girlfriend.

Lance didn't run towards the noise, he rather walked, carefully watching his step so he won't trip with anything.

"Get lost!" Lance heard. Yup, it was that Okumura kid.

The sound of Rin's yelling voice was getting closer and closer, and a chill burned Lance's arms and backbone; he heard something else.

"You get lost, kid" A ghostly voice demanded "This is my house, my kingdom! And I'll destroy anyone who wants to take it away from me!"

Lance's heart started bumping fiercely. He could barely see through that deep penumbra, and he was way too close from a hot-headed and full of hormones teenager who was provoking a ghost who probably had a 'strong personality'.

The ghost growled, a clear signal that he was about to attack Rin. Lance couldn't see it, but he could hear it and feel it. What he saw, and he wished he didn't, was a burst of blue flames coming out from Rin's body. Those flames completely surrounded the ghost, and fed themselves with him; meanwhile the ghost was screaming in pain and anger, then dissipated shortly before the blue fire did.

Lucky Lance he was behind Rin's back, otherwise he would be seen by him. Then Rin turned around and his luck was over.

"Okay Lance, stay calm and invent something" he told himself inside his head.

He pointed the cellphone's light towards Rin, who was carrying Shiemi on his arms. Then, he walked towards them.

"There you are!" Lance said "Are you okay?"

"Uhm... yeah, we are okay" Rin seemed a little bit shy and surprised. Disconcerted.

"Did you see that blue sparkle?"

"Wh-what blue sparkle?" Now he seemed nervous.

"You didn't?"

"N-no"

"It was huge"

"I-I'm pretty sure I didn't see it"

Lance shrugged, acting like nothing was happening, even though he was melting on the inside because of the fear.

"How is she?" He pointed at Shiemi.

"She is unconscious" Rin leave Shiemi carefully on the floor, then gave some steps back, and stared at Lance through the darkness.

He got closer to Shiemi and examinated her carefully.

"We'll need some ice" He told Rin "We should go upstairs so we can treat this contusion on her forehead"

"W-what about her other wounds?"

"Nothing to worry about. Some band-aids and that's all. Come and help me to carry her"

If it wasn't because of Shura's protection, she would be totally skewed. At least five goblins attacked her already, and she didn't react at all.

"Girl, if you want to survive, you need to move" Shura told her.

Vanessa knew that, but for some reason her body didn't... or maybe just forgot it.

There was sweat on her forehead, her fingers and her knees shaking. Her breath was heavy, and another goblin was already going after her. And now she realizes that her eyes are wet with tears.

She couldn't hear anything from the outside. It was just herself and the goblin. A small, weak goblin which managed to scare her. No, it wasn't that; he didn't scare her, it was something else...

"Lupita!"

The sound of her middle name bring her back to the real world. She evaded the goblin, then lifted her skirt a little. A dagger was attached to each one of her legs. She took the right dagger and sliced the goblin with it, then proceeded to take the left dagger.

She turned around to see the one who rescued her from her own thoughts: with a lot of scratches and trying to get out of the hole was Lance, being helped by Rin Okumura, and staring at her with concern.

"What's wrong with you?" He yelled at her "They're just... goblins. I saw you beat up a ghoul by yourself once, what's happening now?"

Vanessa smiled at him.

"Nothing"

She ran towards the first goblin she saw and destroyed it the same way she did with the first one, then threw her dagger to another one, which began to disappear. She picked up her dagger and sliced another demon, and another, and another...

Vanessa moved all around the place, killing those little creatures here and there. She even killed one before Shura, just for the sake of teasing.

"Girl, if you want to survive, you need smaller boobs" She told Shura.

"Don't move"

Vanessa looked around, and saw it was over. But more important, she saw how Yukio was pointing at her with his gun, and Lance was next to him in the same position as her.

"Throw your weapons" Said Yukio. Vanessa didn't have any other options, so she did so.

Yukio made her a signal to move away from Shura, and ordered Lance to walk next to Vanessa.

"Now, answer me a question: Who are you?"