…BLOOD...

They finally get to the end of the hallway and reach the auditorium doors "Now go git in and if I catch you trying to get out of another assembly it will be detention and a call to your mother" Mrs. Hollenday warned. She opened the door and both she and Jericho froze.

They stared uncomprehendingly at the spectacle. The roof to the auditorium had been ripped off completely; there was blood everywhere, so too were there bodies. Some were running around screaming, they would be bodily picked up and thrown, hard, or they would be picked up and just scream and fall back to the ground lifeless. It was chaos and mass death to the normal observer.

To Jericho however it was very different, and so much worse. Jericho knew all these people if not by name at least by face. And he could see so much more than everyone else in addition to those things he also saw all the freshly dead souls and the hollows, so many hollows. They were everywhere too many to count having the greatest feast of their lives.

"Wh-what's going on here?" Screamed Mrs. Hollenday, as she rushed over to the nearest student. "No Mrs. Hollenday it'll kill you, you've got to run!" In her distress she completely ignored him and ran over to the body of Jessica, Rogers's girlfriend. Before she even got there the hollow that was consuming the soul of Jessica looked down and casually kicked her into the wall. Jericho knew that she was beyond hope when he saw her confused soul emerge from her body.

Jericho needed to do something, anything to stop this madness. He remberd that his mom had told him not to remove his necklace, because it would attract hollows. Well nothing for it now. He clenched his hand over his necklace and screamed "come and get me!" attracting their attention, then he pulled his necklace off.

He felt rather than saw the rietsu that was released, the surge of power, energy and confidence. He was gladdened that he now had the power to avenge the death of his friends. Excited anticipation began to fill him and, he charged.

He ran after that first hollow that had killed Jessica and Mrs. Hollenday and easily jumped the twenty feet to its mask, which was as big a Jericho's chest, and shattered it in one punch. He looked down and saw that the green stuff was beginning to coat his body like armor and at all his striking points (hands, elbows, knees, etc…) the mist was forming spikes.

Again he charged and easily destroyed the lesser hollows, one after another; Jericho felt that he could keep this up for hours. Excited as he was Jericho failed to notice that not all the hollows were attacking him. Namely five that stood there several hundred feet in the air conversing.

Each hollow in the group was unique however the one that the other four faced was by far the most distinct. Even if one could not sense rietsu you could tell that this one was the leader by the fact that the hollow other than the four kept as far away as they possibly could, and the extreme respect, almost fear, that the four treated him with was also another giveaway.

This hollow was the smallest hollow there, in fact if it weren't for the mask and the hole it would have been easy to mistake him for a human. His hole was located in the exact center of his chest and his mask was a white triangle with a thick, blood red, reverse V on it. His eyes were the deepest of blue. He was only about six and a half feet tall but his very presence seemed to enough to kill anything he was near.

"Lord?" one of the lesser hollow asked "What should we do about that one, we soon will not have enough soldiers left to make strong and challenge the King if he keeps this up much longer." "Send a Gillian in to absorb them then cero the child if he still lives, we may just get another Adjucas out of this." Responded the leader.

"Lord I mean not to question you, but how will we replenish our numbers after this, we will have no army left?" the one farthest left asked.

"Jarshin are you really so dense? How you ever became an Adjucas is quite beyond me. It's simple, like this" with that he snapped his fingers and the sky temporally blacked out as a new wave of hollows came out and went after Jericho. "Now then watch. You Cero now" the leader said to a Gillian.

Jericho was feeling great, he saw the new wave of hollows and his only thought was "is that all?" and continued fighting. Then something showed up behind the little hollows, … it was huge, tall as a skyscraper, and it was charging up a huge red glowing ball of energy. Jericho froze as did all the hollows he was fighting and said "What is that?" To his surprise one of the hollows close to him said with a voice of despair "it is a Menos, we are all dead." With that the Gillian fired.