AN: MERRY CHRISTMAS! I'm going crazy… It's 2:18am… I need to go to sleep, but I promised to post this chapter up. Aw, screw the AN…

Chapter VI: Monophobia!

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His hand trailed up and down my left side, making me shiver at the ticklish sensation. I continued to struggle against Nero, trying to roll away from him. "Shit, Nero! This is not the time for this!"

Nero's amber eyes hardened as he lowered his body to trap mine in an embrace. "When is the time then?"

I growled and reached for my gun, drawing it and aiming. "Definitely not now!"

Then, I pulled the trigger.

A howl rose from behind Nero, causing him to let me go and turn around. The Hunter crouched and nursed its arm. Nero glared at the creature. "How did that get in here?"

"Doesn't matter, Nero. You lowered your guard… AND I still haven't forgiven you!" I raised my gun and continued to shoot the Hunter. "I mean, seriously! We are trying to survive an apocalypse and you go off and try to seduce me!" (*BANG) "I thought it wasn't in your nature to do that type of thing!" (*BANG) "NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I WITNESSED SUCH IDIOCY!" (*BANG BANG) "Stop thinking with your sexual organ!" (*slap!)

… Yes, I smacked Nero in the face.

Nero froze and stared at me. "Maigen, when I say so, run."

I cocked my head to the side, "Huh?"

Then, Nero pulled me into an embrace. "I'm sorry. But, you have to run, Maigen."

"I repeat, 'HUH?" I stated with apprehension. In response, Nero smiled at me affectionately before pushing me through a portal he created. I could now see what he was protecting me from. "No! I'm not leaving you with him, Nero!"

The last thing I heard and saw before the portal closed was Slenderman coming up behind Nero and Nero saying, "I'm sorry, little sister. I love you."

Then, darkness engulfed me in my time of despair.

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When I came to, I was lying in a bed of leaves and nothing but darkness and fog surrounded me. Sitting up, I searched around me for any trace of my companions. But, there was nothing all around me. The wind blew and I exhaled, startled by the fact that I could see my own breath. I had not expected for the temperature to drop so dramatically. My body shivered as I stood up from the cold and dirty ground, observing the area around me through the fog. My luck had run out, I was at the old asylum.

"No…" I breathed out, in a terrified whisper.

Out of the corner of my eyes I saw Genesis's copy of LOVELESS and Weiss's shirt. Both objects were bloodied and located at the entrance of the asylum.

Genesis and Weiss couldn't be in there, right? But what if they were? Were they with Sephiroth? What could have defeated the two of them? And what happened to Sephiroth?

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO EVERYONE!" I screamed out in despair, not caring if I drew attention to myself. Desperately, I fumbled with the walkie-talkie. "Is anyone out there? Can anyone hear me?"

Only static met my ears, making me wail in melancholy. In a fit, I lifted my arm to throw the little device to the floor, but before I let go of the machine, static and a voice filled my ears. "(*szhhhhhhhh) Hel-szh-o? Who-s there?"

Crying out in alarm and hope, I pressed the respond button. "It's Maigen! Who is it? Where are you?"

"(*szhhhh) Mai-szhhh? It-szhhhhhh- Sephiroth-szhhhhhhh… I'm-szhhhhhh-asylum. Szhhhhhhh-being chased-szhhhh Genesis and Weiss-szhhhh-disappeared! (*crash and screech) It's found me. Don't come in here! I can't beat it! Run away!" Then, the line went dead.

"Sephiroth? SEPHIROTH!" I sobbed in desperation, staring at the walkie-talkie. "Don't… DON'T LEAVE ME ALL ALONE!" Tears leaked from my eyes like waterfalls. Collapsing onto the floor, I curled into a ball, burying my face into my knees. "I don't want to be alone. I'm scared. I'm so scared. Please don't leave me alone."

I stayed in that position for a while, wallowing in my despair and fear. I didn't want to be alone to face this all by myself. I wanted everyone to be safe.

But we don't always get what we want…

"Oh, poor little Maigen, so scared and alone. Where are your friends now? Oh, I know! I took them all away from you!" A creepy and eerie voice came from all around me. "I know… if you go into the asylum, I'll give you three of your friends back first and then, you'll get the rest later. Does that sound good?"

"Just go away and leave me alone!" I screamed and begged.

"Aww… But don't you want your friends to be safe? You don't want me to kill them, right?"

"DON'T TOUCH ANY OF THEM!" I roared in anger, rising to my feet.

"Then come and find me in the asylum. If you find me, I'll let you and your friends out of this nightmare safe and sound. But, you'll have to get passed Slendy and the others, first!" The voice had begun to morph into a strange childish voice. I didn't move, angering the voice. "Okay, fine. Then I'll just have to do this!"

"ARGH!"

My head jerked to the side, looking for the source of the voice. "No!" To my left, Nero was bound in chains, his shirt ripped and torn. Blood splattered his entire body and leaked from his closed mouth and nose. I ran towards Nero, but he disappeared and was replaced by a giant of a man, wearing a butcher's smock and a triangular helmet. I stopped running just in time to avoid slamming into the large humanoid creature. Hyperventilating, I started for the opposite direction, only to drip on the wet leaves underneath me. Falling to the floor, I stared at the tall figure above me in horror. Pyramid Head made no move to attack me, so I sighed in relief. BAD IDEA.

I whimpered as the Great Knife came crashing towards me and rolled to the side. "What the fuck?"

I searched for an exit from the Great Knife, but the only means of escape was the asylum. Swallowing my dread, I performed a very sloppy reverse summersault, got to my feet and ran towards the asylum doors… However, just my luck, they weren't open.

"Cod fucking dang it!" I screamed out, and ran towards the asylum's east wing. There was a broken window that was located on the asylum's east wing. The students that wanted to get in would usually sneak passed the security patrols and enter the asylum through the malfunctioning window. The window led to the lower area of the ground floor, so the only way to get through the window was to crawl. Sprinting away from my doom, I saw the window about twenty meters away from me. Gulping, I let my body fall to the floor and slide through the window. Unfortunately, I forgot that after the window was a five feet drop.

I landed on my back in the asylum and trembled with terror. The dust in the asylum was toxic, so I pulled out my black scarf from my jacket pocket and wrapped it around my face. Opening my flashlight, I scanned the area and frowned at the amount of broken equipment lying about. A screech came from my right, making me dive to my right to take cover behind an old desk and shut my light off.

Well fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck fuck.

The epinephrine in my system increased as I fought to keep myself quiet. The screech increased in volume as the source got closer to my hiding spot. Peaking my head out from under the desk, I watched as two bloody and dirty feet slowly stalked into the area I was located in. My eyes trialed upwards to look at the possibly hostile enemy. My eyes widened and I ducked back under the desk with fright. Yup. That was definitely an enemy.

So, yeah… Pyramid Head magically reappeared inside the asylum. WHAT IS THIS? SILENT HILL? I waited for Pyramid Head to scan the room and leave through the entrance he came from before rolling out from under the desk and sprinted towards the basement doors that led to the opposite direction that Pyramid Head was going to.

Don't ask why I went to the dark and scary basement. I'm still having nightmares over what occurred down there.

I ran down the stairs and jumped over a few holes in the floor to get to the lower levels of the asylum. "I hate this. I hate this. I hate this!" I chanted to myself as I scanned the messed up area at the bottom.

I had stumbled into a sort of abandoned laboratory or something. The tables were lined with crucibles and beakers, while the floor was covered with broken syringes and some blood. Papers were thrown everywhere precariously. Bending down, I scanned one of the papers and found out that they were files on patients that had been treated at the institute when the asylum was still up and running seventy years ago. I remembered reading that the asylum was used to treat mental patients and that the upper floors were used as a cell area, while the basements were filled with padded rooms for the more insane people that were admitted. The patients were suicidal and homicidal, which is why over three thousand patients were pronounced dead in the year nineteen forty-five. Then, in the year of nineteen forty-nine, the New Jersey area was hit with a devastating blizzard. The asylum didn't have much heating and the blizzard shut down most of the power. As a result, about seventy percent of the patients died that year. The tragedy forced the government to shut down the asylum. The matter was left on what to do with the land and building. After improving the heating system and security, the government reopened the establishment and used it as a cancer center. All went well, but then, the patients began to die under strange circumstances. Eventually, the cancer center was also abandoned, and the plot of land has never been used since.

I shivered as I stood up from my crouch position. I have always hated hospitals with a passion. Being here in the dark and running for my life didn't do anything for my nerves. Closing my eyes, I continued to walk through the lab area, the glass syringes breaking under my boots.

"Who's there?" an echoey voice called from down the hallway, quick and clumsy footsteps followed.

Being the idiot that I am, I called back to the voice because it seemed familiar. "Um… Hi?"

"My beloved! Where are you? How did this happen? Have you come for me?" The voice asked, getting closer from the left. Is it me, or do I hear chains rattling?

Getting a bit paranoid, I searched the room for a place to hide and found one of the padded cells. Frowning, I quietly hid inside the pillow-like room. I heard the chain-rattling footsteps come closer to the area that I was previously in.

"My love? Have you finally chosen to be with me?" The voice sounded heartbroken, which played on my heartstrings like a violinist. Who could be so lonely that he would make such a pitiful voice? I wanted to run out there and give whoever it was a hug. I heard the chains stop outside the door and froze. The figure sobbed. "Why have you left me? I just want to be with you!"

Seriously, I am an idiot. I stood up from my spot in the relatively safe cell and glanced out the door to look at whoever was standing in the middle of the lab. My heart stopped and I choked, staring at the figure before me.

"Sephiroth?" I whispered to myself, recognizing the height of my first love, but I could see his face.

The figure turned to look at me and I choked, holding back a scream of terror, horror, despair, and embarrassment. "My love!"

It was Sephiroth alright, but it wasn't Sephiroth at the same time. This phantom before me, he had no eyes and no hair. Blood marred his skin and dirty covered his face. His feet were chained together and there was something digging into his shoulder. But, damn it! My embarrassment did not come from any of these. I was horrified at what happened to Sephiroth, but there was one thing that nearly caused me to faint!

HE WAS NAKED!

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Mata Nui: (*Maigen: You can have its kidney… (*passes out)

Akuma's Innocence: T-threesome? O/ / /o… Er… I dunno…

Tifa2001: Sorry for the wait!

KaosTHedgehog: Awkward situations are Maigen Tsurugi's curse! Hehehe… Penis monster X3

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Goodnight! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!