(Chapter Three)

The Forming Covenant

May laid in her bed as she held onto the blue straw doll. She thought about her day with her friends Mi and Kyo. Her phone vibrated and chimed. She picked it up and opened it to see messages from Mi.

(Phone Messages)

Mi: Are you sure you wanna send Jojo to Hell?

May: Look, Mi. I know that it is something wrong to do, but I can't just forgive him for what's he did.

Mi: Did you find out what happened to the straw doll, then?

May: Yes, my stupid brother had it with his friends to do some silly book report.

Mi: Oh my. You're lucky they didn't decide to pull the thread for you.

May: Yeah. They wouldn't understand what would've happened.

Mi: I'll talk to you tomorrow then.

May: Night.

Mi: Night.

May closes her phone. She sets her phone on her night stand. May closes her eyes and falls asleep.

-The next day.-

The clouds in the sky turned into a light gray color as the morning rises. Two alarms go off inside the house. One coming from May's room and the other coming from Jack's room. May gets up from her bed and turns off the alarm. She quickly grabs her clothes and heads toward the bathroom to take a shower. Jack opens up his eyes and turns off his alarm clock. Jack gets up from his bed and pacts up his little pro camera into his backpack. He opens up his chore to get out clean school clothes for today. May gets done with her shower and quickly gets dressed. She heads towards the kitchen, where her mother had breakfast waiting there for her. Jack head to the bathroom to take a shower. The water in the shower ran out of hot water. Jack hurried up to get it over with. Jack got done with his shower. Jack dried off and put on his clothes. By the time he was done, his mother and his sister was done cleaning up the kitchen and turned off the light to the dining room. Jack went into the kitchen and made himself some toast. He put a ramen cup into his backpack for lunch. May was already leaving to go to the bus stop.

Mrs. Gravestar: Bye, sweetheart.

May: Bye, mom.

They waved bye to each other. Jack went to the front door and puts on his shoes.

Mrs. Gravestar: Boy, don't forget to get your sister a new bike chain today! Now, get out of here.

Jack: And you make sure you don't get too drunk off of your wine.

Mrs. Gravestar: What was that?

Jack left before his mother could get out her sentence. He walked past the lake to the bus stop where May was sitting on the bench waiting for the bus. He stood there waiting for the bus.

May: You better, hurry up and get me that bike chain.

Jack: And you better hurry up and use that doll already or give it back to the one you got it from because it's not some plaything.

May: Excuse me.

The bus pulls up at the bus stop. Jack gets on the bus and sits in the back of the bus. May gets onto the bus and sits in the middle row. The bus takes off. Jack stares at the floor as May stares out the window.

The bus stops at the highschool and May gets off. May is a second-year at Harumo Highschool. Mi and Kyo are waiting for at the entrance to the high school. The bus takes off again to Mizuki Middle School. It stops at the bus stop near the middle school, where Shinjitsu, Ryan, Ren, and Robert are waiting for Jack at the corner towards the middle school. Jack, Shinjitsu, Ryan, and Robert are fourth-year students of this middle school. Ren is a third-year student at this middle school.

Jack gets off the bus and walks over to his friends. Shinjitsu leads the group into the middle school. The boys get ready to present their presentation to the class that they worked so hard on. Ren goes to his class. Around their fourth period, they were setting up to tell the class about their book report presentation. The boys are the first up as the hook up the teacher computer to the projection screen. Shinjitsu is the speaker for the presentation, Robert is the guy that helps the tech guy, Jack is the tech guy, and Ryan is the person, who turns the pages to the presentation as Shinjitsu goes over them. Robert dims the lights in the classroom as Jack starts up the projection to the presentation. Shinjitsu holds the notebook of which Ryan wrote notes on. The presentation starts up with the first slide that says welcome to the class and a title that reads, 'Invesigation Into Rumors.' The class settled down as they were interested in the boys' book report presentation. Ryan turned the presentation to the next slide. The title of this slide read, 'Voices of Question.' Shinjitsu began to speak unto the class.

Shinjitsu: For a while now there have been rumors of a site that can help those who want vengeance against their tormentors.

Shinjitsu looks unto the class.

Shinjitsu: Yes, I am speaking of the notorious Hell Link.

Ryan turns the presentation to its next slide with a title that read, 'Real or Fake.'

Shinjitsu: Most of you have already speculated if such a site domain exist. I am here to say yes, it does. At midnight a person, who seeks vengeance against another. Just has to access this site and type in the name of your tormentor. There you come face to face with a girl with red eyes and long black hair wearing a black schoolgirl uniform outfit. The girl is called, 'Hell Girl,' to those who know the rumor to be true.

Ryan turns to the next slide of the presentation with a title that read, 'What Happens When She Comes.'

Shinjitsu: Now, like most curses, Hell Girl has some rules to follow herself. She can't just send your tormentor to Hell when she comes. She must give you a straw doll with a scarlet thread tied around its neck. Then, she'll tell you that once you pull the thread that your tormentor will be sent to Hell right then and there. However, once that is done you too will never know Heaven as after your time on this Earth is done you too will go to Hell.

Ryan turns the presentation to the next slide with a title that read, 'Is Hell Girl Good For Humanity?'

Shinjitsu: Now, you may ask yourself is this cycle good for humanity? The answer is no. It is never good for humanity. Because she disrupts the balance of things. Hatred can only breed more hatred. Humanity just needs to learn forgiveness and how to get along. Though she may seem like the answer, it is only because she is only a festering hatred that was never put to rest properly and was betrayed by those she called friend or family. She cannot understand the other emotions of this world. For as long as hatred exists she can use that to be tether to this world.

Ryan turns the presentation to the next slide with a title that read, 'A Great Author.'

Shinjitsu: Now, many of you may not believe me, when I tell you that Hell Girl is not good for humanity. However, the author of this book, Hajime Shibata, believed that we shouldn't use Hell Girl, I believe. He talks about how she is the way she is. As her story may be tragic but gives her no right to have the power to give people the option of sending others to Hell. For can't we all see that two wrongs don't make a right.

Ryan turns the presentation to the next slide with a title that read, 'Thank You for Your Time.'

Shinjitsu: And so this concludes our presentation. Thank you.

Jack turns off the presentation as Robert turned on the light and Ryan turned off the projection. Robert walked over to Shinjitsu as so did Jack as Ryan rolled the projector out of the way. Their teacher Ms. Joshi walked up to her desk, clapping her hands.

Ms. Joshi: Good job, Shinjitsu, Jack, Robert, and Ryan.

Shinjitsu, Robert, Jack, and Ryan took their seats. The next group of students started their speech into their book report. After a few book reports were in the bell rang for lunch period. The boys prepared their lunches and went outside to sit on some benches. Ren followed right behind them.

Ren: So, guys how did your presentation go?

Jack and Robert took a bit out of their ramen cups.

Shinjitsu: It went great.

Robert: However, I thought you were going to show that video that Jack collected for us.

Shinjitsu: Yeah, the reason why I didn't is that you made a good point the other day. It wouldn't look good for her or Jack's family.

Jack: Yeah, it really wouldn't matter.

Shinjitsu: Plus, I had to choose if we were going to make an argument for it or against it. And as I recall we wanted to rip people's happiness away from them, remember Robert.

Robert: Good call then. I guess I did rub off a little on you, Shinijitsu.

The bell rang for the students to return to class.

The period became P.E. at the high school in May's class. Mi and Kyo were still running around the track as the sun began to come out on this beautiful spring day. May, however, felt sadness and hatred staring at Nyomi and Jojo sitting on a bench together. Jojo got up and went toward the bathroom as Nyomi sat there waiting for his return. May looked toward the bathroom where Jojo went to, but instead of finding him in the bathroom, he was making out with Shiki. That pissed May off. Shiki ran off back to her group of friends, who thought she went to the bathroom. Jojo was about to leave when May approached.

May: You're an asshole, Jojo.

Jojo: Look at here the pot calling the kettle black.

May: What do you mean? I've never cheated on you.

Jojo: Yeah, but you're not exactly little miss goodie two shoes either.

May: What's that supposed to mean?

Jojo: I mean I might be a bad guy for cheating on girls, but least I don't neglect a person and treat them like nothing.

May: I have never-

Jojo: Shut up, I know you and your parents treat Jack like shit, and I thought I was a bad guy.

May: Jack has nothing to do with this.

Jojo: That may be, but it won't be long before he uses your answer to your problem as well.

May: Um…

Jojo: You're going to send me to Hell today, right?

May: How did you-?

Jojo: Because I've been waiting for someone to for so long.

May: What?

Jojo: Well, I can't exactly do it to myself, I've tried.

May ran off from Jojo.

Jojo: I know you'll do it today, May!

Jojo walked back over to Nyomi.

The day progressed and soon the high school let out. Jojo walked Nyomi over to the bench. The both sat down facing away from the sun that was going down.

Jojo: You understand, right, Nyomi?

Nyomi: Yes.

A tear rolled off Nyomi's cheek.

Jojo: Is there anything you want me to tell Asuna when I leave this world?

Nyomi: Yeah, please tell her that her little sister is doing well here on Earth.

May walked outside to see Jojo and Nyomi sitting on the bench together from a distance. With mixed emotions in her heart, she took the straw doll and removed the scarlet thread. Another tear fell from Nyomi's cheek.

May: Go to hell, Jojo!

Ren: Your grievance has been heard.

Jojo disappeared from this world as Nyomi just sat there.

Jojo's eyes opened to a ferry leading him to Hell. Ai was paddling the boat there.

Jojo: Do you think things would have been different if I was only there for Asuna, that day?

Ai: Human is an existence full of sin and Misery.

The boat goes through the gate of Hell.

Ai: I consign this grievance to hell.

May starts walking toward the bus stop as Jojo's words echo in her mind.

Jojo: It won't be long before Jack uses your answer to your problem as well.

May makes it to the bus stop. The bus pulls up to the stop. She goes inside the bus and sits in the middle row looking out the window. Jack was sitting in the back of the bus. Jack looks out the window to see a girl from Ren's class staring back at him with green eyes. The bus starts to drive off.

-Preview-

(Chapter Four)

A Quiet Person

A girl with long black hair and green eyes sits at the park with her eyes looking downward at the ground. Ms. Mono walks up to the girl.

Ms. Mono: I think it's about time that we went home, Kuruma.

Kuruma: Okay, Auntie Isha.

They walked over to Isha's car. They get in and drive off.