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3: I'm finally baacckkkk XDDD
Sorry for the late update... I was concentrating on them exams for the days I've been away from fanfiction QwQ
I've finished two, the School Exams and Practical Exams... BUT I STILL HAVE FREAKING NATIONAL AND THE "SECOND" SCHOOL EXAMS QAQ
SAVE ME QWQ #slapped XwX
Here's a long chapter to (hopefully) make up for it :D
Replies~
For Risingwind:
Hehe~ Maybe?~ Let's see since it depends on my brain~ XD #slapped XwX
You do? Phew! I was pretty worried QwQ
Now I'm worried for THIS chapter and the next ones QwQ
That's okay, Rising-chan! At least you didn't forget in this chap?~ :D
But he's epic-er than Richian! You'll see XD
For XenoVise:
Ya know, that actually seems interesting XD
Dunno when to put that scene, though... Hopefully my brain can figure it out *^*/
Thank you~ X333
Alrighty then, Visey! :D
For The Sharkening:
Thank you~ XDDD
Which part was it? I'm curious :DDD
Hm... Perhaps I shouldn't do the number system next time if I'm gonna make another OC story..? ouo
For Kazama Shirosawa:
So your face would be severed?! OwO
What kind of mask is that?! OAO
Intruder alerttt~ XDDD
For Arivellon Avelion Zeed:
Replied in PM~ :3
On to the story~
INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! WARNING, CODE: ORANGE! INTRUDER INSIDE SECTOR C! INTRUDER INSIDE SECTOR C!
"Argghhh, alarms. How annoying." Zanardi commented, glaring towards the blinking sirene with her hands on her hips.
"Now where was I..? Sector C was it? Could they all be in Sector A, then..?" she mumbled to herself as she walked, observing the place. She noticed that all the doors were closed, and that the place has plenty of intersections that could confuse anyone who's unlucky enough to be lost in it. She kept walking in a straight line, however, ignoring all the other paths.
"Hey."
The short-haired girl felt a hand being placed on her shoulder, startling her to turn around quickly and glare at the person behind her, who turned out to be the light gray-haired boy.
Remembering her grandfather's words to act casually, she composed herself.
"Oh, sorry! I thought you were a guy!" he exclaimed in a panicked way, raising both of his hands.
"That's fine. Everyone does at some point." she replied, dusting her shoulder with a hand. Nezu felt insulted for a second.
"So? Why are you here? And who are you?" she questioned, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Eyy, I'm not the intruder in case you're wondering. Name's Nezu. Nezu Zumine. You can check for it at the administrator if you don't believe me. I'm just a typical lost new guy!"
Zanardi raised an eyebrow.
'Strange... Where have I heard that name before..?' she thought.
"What about you? Are you sure you're not the intruder instead?" Nezu asked, having a suspicious expression.
The police member rolled her eyes at him to make her seem believable.
"... October. That's my name." she lied.
Silently, she cursed herself for not choosing a better name.
Nezu blinked. Once, then twice, and then he burst out laughing.
"O-October?! Of all months?! Are you freaking serious?!" he exclaimed mid-laugh as he clutched his stomach in pain.
"Say something else, and I will castrate you." Zanardi growled with her fist raised up, but her threat did little to stop him.
In the end she snapped and directed a punch towards the thief, which he dodged to the side before raising both his hands up, chuckling.
"Alright, alright. Sorry. Is that really your name, though? Halloween Lady?" he mocked with a challenging grin.
"Shouldn't you be going by now?" Zanardi questioned, her eye twitching in annoyance. She was this close to punching him in the face so hard that it'll be deformed.
"Ah, true. I really should. See you soon, I assume?" he said, grinning before turning away to walk towards the opposite direction.
The dark red-haired girl shook her head in mild disbelief at how gullible he was and continued to walk forward.
"Weirdo." she mumbled under her breath.
Minutes later, Nezu finally reunited with the rest of his group mates.
"Ah! Hey, guys! Sorry for being late." he greeted them, grinning sheepishly as he waved a hand. Lint rolled his eyes at his act.
"Forget that. Have you seen anyone suspicious looking while you were... Well, lost?" the man questioned, crossing his arms.
"Hm... Nope. I don't think so. I did meet this weird girl who said her name is October just a..." he paused, blinking when he saw the director trembling in what seemed to be fury.
"You idiot... THAT IS THE INTRUDER!" he practically screeched, glaring daggers at the light gray-haired boy who widened his eyes.
"Eh?!" Nezu looked taken aback.
"No one's named October here, Mister." Yucca informed, having an amused expression.
"There isn't?" Nex actually looked surprised, blinking at hearing the fact.
"Well, we can always have someone change their name into October just to have one named that." Xen joked, grinning.
Cue the cricket orchestra(?).
Alice sighed, wondering why exactly did she even join this... group... in the first place.
"You've cleared any doubts from my mind that you're nothing but an idiot." Helios deadpanned. Amane yawned, sleepiness starting to get to her.
"Can we just get this over with?" she questioned, rubbing her eye.
"Lady Amane, rubbing your eye is not a good thing to do." her butler warned, frowning. She pouted slightly.
"Well, maybe we should split up if we want to solve this faster?" Cain suggested, raising a hand.
"Sounds good to me! I call dibs on the straight path!" En exclaimed, grinning mischievously.
"Not fair! I want to go there too!" Chess complained, glaring at the dark red-haired boy.
"We will split into four groups equally, because there are only four paths. No need to fight over such a trivial thing as this." Lint scolded lightly at them, rolling his eyes.
"Alrighty! So, Chess and I will be a group! Anyone else wants to join the party?" En suddenly rested his arm on the boy's head, causing Chess to yell incoherent words of help as he kept being squished to the ground.
Lint narrowed his eyes when only Xen raised a hand, jumping repeatedly as he did so. Two idiots and a kid being in the same group isn't very reassuring. What if they infected their idiocy on the poor child?
"Cain, you join them." he told the black-haired young man as he pointed at the two.
Cain merely nodded, being neutral in the whole situation. It's a good thing they're people he's more familiar of, though.
"Aw... Why can't I?" Xen whined, only receiving a poker-faced stare. "Fine! I'll go left! Who's going with me?"
"Me, me! I'll join!" Nex raised a hand, grinning. He preferred the left path after all.
Lint forced himself not to facepalm.
"... Alice, you join them." he said, gesturing to the two.
Alice sighed in defeat and nodded, going towards the two at the left path.
The two boys gulped nervously at her cold yet calculating stare, as if watching for any movements they'll make.
"Don't you dare do anything stupid." she threatened, glaring. The two nodded quickly.
"They make a good team." Yucca commented, nodding wisely to herself as she earned strange looks.
Lint paused for a moment to decide the last teams. Only Vince, Nezu, Amane, Helios, and Yucca are left, and it was obvious that separating Amane and Helios into different groups wouldn't end well.
... This might not be a good idea, but he honestly doesn't want to be stuck with a certain person, so...
"Vince, Amane, and Helios, you three go right. Nezu and Yucca, you're with me." he said, earning deathglares from Amane and Helios.
"Amigos!~ We shall be a magnifico team!~ Would you accept these flowers as a sign of friendship?~" Vince spoke in a sing-sang voice as he presented two bouquets of flowers to the two.
Amane shot a laser to her bouquet, disintegrating it, while Helios threw his at the sparkling man's face.
Vince gasped the moment the bouquet fell from his face. He clutched his heart dramatically at a corner.
"The flowers are innocent..! My kokoro can't take this treatment towards them!" he sobbed, covering his face with his hands. En patted the poor guy on his shoulder.
"There, there..."
Yucca frowned. Poor, poor Vince.
Nezu sighed in relief at the team he got.
"As not amusing as your performances are, you're wasting your time with each second you stay here." Lint pointed out, rolling his eyes.
"Ah, right! LAST ONE TO CATCH THE INTRUDER IS A ROTTEN EGG!" En yelled, laughing as he dashed off.
"NO WAY MAN!" Xen yelled back, dashing off immediately, followed by Nex.
Alice gave out a sigh of frustration, her cards forming into a floating chair. She sat on it before it started to speed up towards the two.
Chess and Cain blinked at each other before they started to dash after the dark red-haired boy.
"WAIT FOR USSS!" Chess yelled.
Vince shook his head.
"Young ones these days... They don't know how to appreciate life." He turned towards his two team members and gestured towards their chosen path, sparkling elegantly as he did so with a serious expression. "Come! Let us make our way!~ We shall enjoy the beauty of life as we do so!"
Amane and Helios looked at each other before staring at him in what seems to be a mixture of mild horror and incredulity, but started walking when he did so anyways, keeping a safe distance of three meters.
"Ahhh~ Look at how beautiful the cream color on the ceiling is~ The blinding brightness of the lights~ The fresh, cold bree- Ouw!"
Lint rolled his eyes at the three groups.
"Hey, Mister Lint? Why don't we go pick up Thirteen?" Yucca told him, glancing at the path they were supposed to take.
The brown-haired man and light gray-haired thief looked blank for a few seconds, then glanced at each other, and finally stared at the albino elf.
"Who?" Nezu questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"Thir- Oh, right... You weren't there during the introductions. Perfect timing, then. Let's go get him." Lint remembered before he started to walk back towards the office.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. His name is Thirteen?!"
~Meanwhile~
"Hatsyii!" Thirteen sneezed, keeping hold of the book he had just been reading with his left hand while the other went to cover his nose in reflex.
He was still inside the office just like the group predicted, sitting on the couch as he read.
~With En, Chess, and Cain~
The three finally slowed down and started walking in a relaxed pace through their path. En was whistling with his hands behind his head, Chess seemed to be trying to remember something, and Cain looked somehow confused.
"Um... Guys? Did they ever tell us what this intruder looked like..?" Cain asked, facing towards his two, younger teammates.
Chess immediately gasped dramatically and pointed a finger at the black-haired young man.
"That's it! That was what I was trying to remember!" he exclaimed, earning a look of disbelief from Cain.
"Her name's October, right? Then we'll just go look for someone who's named that!" En shallowly said with a grin. Cain sweatdropped.
"I don't think that's a goo-"
"Then we should ask around!" Chess surprisingly followed along, excited to find the intruder.
Soon, the three reached another four-way intersection, giving En a 'great' idea.
"The one who finds her first gets to be treated for lunch?" he suggested, an evil smirk being plastered on his face. Chess grinned.
"You're on!"
"Um... Guys? Aren't we supposed to-"
Ignoring Cain, the two dashed off in separate ways. En left, while Chess went right.
Cain blinked, sighing before he decided to follow along with their plan and kept walking forwards.
~With Nex, Xen, and Alice~
Alice was still going after the two young men who went on their own until she heard a rather girlish scream, followed by hysterical laughter. This alarmed her, and she was even more surprised when Nex suddenly ran back and hid behind her, or more specifically, her chair.
"Did you have to react that badly, Nex? It's just a person!" Xen exclaimed as he looked back at them, having an incredulous expression at the red-haired man who blushed lightly in embarrassment.
"Yeah, a person who just went through the wall!" Nex retorted in defense, pointing harshly towards the short-haired girl who was clutching her stomach as she laughed uncontrollably.
Xen mumbled something that sounds suspiciously like, "Magic."
"Man, you're such a scaredy-cat!" Zanardi mocked, causing Nex to snap at her.
"Am not!" he shouted, glaring.
"A-"
"Nex's stupid fear aside, are you 'October'?" Alice interrupted before the two could start an 'am not' and 'am too' fight, earning a glare from the red head.
Zanardi blinked, then she smirked as she realized the situation at hand.
"I get it. You guys are friends with that failed cosplayer, aren't you?" she questioned, the smirk not leaving her.
"I believe the word 'acquaintance' is more likely." Alice corrected, though she was curious on what she meant by failed cosplayer. Did he even cosplay as anything?
"What do you mean by failed cosplayer, huh?!" Xen demanded, stomping his foot forward in anger.
Nex looked blank for a few seconds, then he quickly turned around and closed his mouth with his hand in an attempt to stiffle his laughter.
Different from the two, it seems that he actually understood what she meant.
"In any case, it seems that you are indeed this 'October' person." Alice concluded.
"And?" Zanardi asked, looking bored.
"We'll capture you this instant, that's what." Xen growled.
The dark red-haired girl snickered, taking a few steps backwards before her feet started to rise to the air, alarming the three.
"I'd like to see you try~" she taunted and flew through the windows.
Xen and Alice both stared blankly at the window, while Nex was still struggling not to laugh.
~With Amane, Helios, and Vince~
"Wonderful sunlight~ Tonight shall display a beautiful moon~ Oh, look! The pretty flowers~" Vince said in a sing-sang voice, pointing towards the field of flowers outside the window as they were starting to walk towards the staircase, "Speaking of flowers, they're innocent! How dare you people do something so evil towards the-"
Vince suddenly tripped while he was going down the stairs, tumbling down before hitting the ground face-first with a dull thud. Blood splattered out, both from his head and from his face because of the impact, and filled the floor around him with its bright, red color. His clothes started to turn red from absorbing the blood.
Needless to say, both Amane and Helios were shocked by this sudden event. They glanced at each other, hoping that it was all just a dream.
The butler went over to Vince, or his corpse rather, and poked his sides. He earned no reaction.
"He's dead." he confirmed, rather perplexed by this outcome.
"You sure?" Amane asked anxiously as she stared at the corpse of their teammate. This was just all too sudden. What should they tell the others? That he fell down the stairs and died?
Suddenly, a bright light that looked like a star flashed in the sky. It stayed there for a moment, then it started becoming bigger as each second passed.
The two bounty hunters saw this and were alarmed.
"A star? It's not even dark yet." Amane narrowed her eyes.
"No... It's-" Helios paused, the so-called star shooting down towards the ground near the building in light speed, causing the building to shake heavily.
Amane lost her balance and fell down, while Helios was struggling to keep himself on his feet.
Screams were heard everywhere, both from the other members and the other staffs or officers there.
~With En, Chess, and Cain~
The three had reunited in the lobby, where they struggled against the sudden quake that happened throughout the building.
Chess was frantically waving his arms in an effort to remain balanced as he again, shouted incoherent words of help.
"YOU CALL THIS INCOHERENT?! I AM SPEAKING CLEARLY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! SAVE OUR SOULLLLS!" he screamed, effectively breaking the fourth wall.
"Ahhhahhaaahhhhaahhahahahahahahahhhaahha!~ T-T-Th-This i-is f-f-f-fun!~" En laughed, his words shaking due to being shaken in his sleeping position on the floor, having fallen down immediately when it had started.
"Will this b-building be o-o-k-k-kay?! It's not g-g-gonna b-br-break d-down is it?! We're not even a-anywhere close t-t-to t-the exit!" Cain shouted in worry as he hid beneath the table, a much more sensible action than the other two.
~With Nex, Xen, and Alice~
Alice was safe from the shaking since she was still sitting on her floating chair, but was still rather alarmed by how terrifyingly the building shook, shown by the items shaking extremely around them.
"... This earthquake must at least have a magnitude of 11..." she commented and looked towards the ceiling, relieved that it showed no signs of falling down whatsoever.
"Hey, at least we're not quacking along in this quake, are w-" Poor Xen accidentally bit on his tongue and started shouting various colorful words.
Nex chuckled at that, but his chuckles sounded like a gargle due to the shaking, forcing him to stop in embarrassment.
~With Lint, Nezu, and Yucca~
The three had reunited with Thirteen, who upon standing up was forcefully made to sit down again by the earthquake.
"What in t-tar-tarnation is going on?!" Lint shouted, balancing himself by holding the couch.
"Tar-tar nation?" Yucca asked innocently as she leaned against the wall, somehow not stuttering like everyone else.
"T-T-TAR-TAR NATION!" Nezu burst out laughing, causing him to lose his grip on the door's handle and fall down, rolling on the ground in his laughter.
"I d-don't g-g-get it." Thirteen said, looking back towards the three from his seat.
"You d-don't ha-v-ve t-to." Lint told him with rolled eyes, while Nezu's shaky laughs continued to reverberate in the room.
"H-HE ACTUALLY S-S-SAID T-TAR-TAR N-NATION!"
~With Amane and Helios~
Within a few more seconds, the quake finally stopped.
Helios sighed and lent a hand towards Amane before helping her up, making sure that she had stood on her feet properly before letting go of her hand and looked out the window.
A crater was formed where the meteor had fallen, smoke surrounding the area from their sights.
"... That's a... huge meteorite." he commented in mild amusement.
Amane went over to see and looked just as amused.
"I'm surprised this place hadn't exploded by now." she remarked.
"What's exploding is my heart! My kokoro!~ How could you two forget me so easily?!" An eeriely familiar voice whined, causing the two to immediately turn around in disbelief. In front of them stood Vince with all his sparkling, teary-eyed glory as he dramatically clutched his chest to prove his point.
They were speechless.
"... Shouldn't you be... dead?" Amane asked with an incredulous expression, pointing a finger at him.
"Indeed I was~ I got to meet my old friend, Mr. Cappy!" he exclaimed happily as he clasped his hands together. A flowery aura surrounded him, making Helios cringe.
"Mr. Cappy?" the silver-haired girl questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"You know~ That guy who manages the dead or something~ Mr. Cappy!" he explains, smiling brightly.
Amane blinks.
"... (insert your chosen god of death's name here)?" she asks.
"Yeah! That's him! How did you know him?" he inquired excitedly.
"... I don't think we should continue this nonsense. Anyways, we still haven't found the intruder have we?" Helios said, changing the topic.
"Perhaps other groups-" Amane paused. A ringing sound came from her phone.
She picked it up and placed it against her ear.
"Hello?"
"Did you meet the intruder?" Lint asked from the other side.
"Nope."
"I see. Well, we should regroup in the living room. Apparently, Xen's group had found her, but she escaped. She's not here anymore."
With that, he hung up.
3: Done~ XDDD
As you can see, this chapter is fully concentrated on the Organization side except for Zanardi, so the next chapter will be fully focused on the Police side and Zana-chan won't appear so much XD
And I'm sure that you've noticed that the Organization side has been having more screen time than the Police, but never fear! The Police will be having much screen time in later chapters! It could be in the next chapter or the much later chapters, but I will do my best to keep them balanced *^*b
As for Vince's... resurrection(?), he's the only immortal(?) OC here since he's a harmless, trolling OC owob #slapped XwX
The rest of the newly submitted OCs will be appearing in the next chapter or the next two chapters, so don't worry if your OC hasn't appeared yet :3
I was confused on how to insert them here, so I didn't owoa
Thanks for reading~