Into the light, into the night

Madoka was running through a field of flowers hand in hand with her beloved Satoshi. They were laughing and smiling without a care in the world as the pulled each other down into the multi-coloured blossoms. Wrestling and rolling around in play as butterflies flew around them. Madoka was happy, happy until she heard it.

The sound was a horrible mix between human and beast, and whatever made it was clearly in pain. It rang through her skull and woke her from her peaceful dream.

Startled and confused Madoka shot upright in her sleeping bag, eyes wide and tired. She looked around the room to see if her friends were ok, her eyes lingered the longest on the stirring from or Satoshi, it seemed so real. Thankfully it looked like they were all ok and Madoka let out the breath she didn't know she had been holding. The sound had woken the other two people sleeping and the three guards came into the room to see what was happening.

"Madoka, is everything alright?" Asked one of the guards.

"Yeah, everything is fine in here. I think it was coming from outside. I'll go check it out." She said as she got up and started walking to the door that would lead her to the second room of the basement slightly annoyed at stupidity of the people who were supposed to be protecting her while she slept. The sound obviously came from outside! They only came in to "check on us" because they were too scared go and look for themselves… Madoka thought to herself.

"We're coming with you.' Said the guards as they joined her.

Damn straight! It was your job to check it out in the first place! You just don't want to go without a Red Data Person like me to protect you… She said to herself. She had been doing that more and more lately, talking to herself.

"I'll go too." Said Satoshi jogging up and putting his hand on Madoka's shoulder. The skin on skin contact make her shoulder tingle.

"No!" She said too quickly and Satoshi gave her a weird look. "I mean… No it might be too dangerous if we all go. Some of us have to stay here." That's what she said out loud but inside her mind she was really shouting, No you can't come! I love you and I would die if anything happened to you! Too bad that he didn't know that and Madoka would like to keep it that way as long as possible.

"If you insist." Said Satoshi as he stopped, letting his hand fall away as she continued walking. The spot where their skin had made contact continued to tingle even after he had let go.

Madoka's tail dragged on the ground as she and the two door guards quickly passed the door into the small room and walked up the stairs into the light of the setting sun. What they saw was unlike anything they had ever seen before. On the ground right in front of the doorway was a bloody dead Crazy, ok been there done that, but standing a few feet away was a huge person with even bigger wings. The person—who's gender Madoka was unsure of—seemed to relax only slightly as she saw Madoka and the 2 "guards" with her.

Her wallaby ears were flattened against her skull and she took a deep breath, glared and spoke.

"This is taken territory. There isn't enough food around here for another group, so please leave." Madoka said glaring at the bird-person. Of course what she was really thinking was a way less polite way of saying "please leave". "Unless, of course, you are on the same side as the Crazies; if that's the case then we will gladly fight you."

It was a small Japanese girl behind the bird that spoke first.

"Yeah, and you're welcome. I mean, I'm glad that you're so grateful that we saved at least one of your lives." She rolled her eyes and flicked her long, black and somehow perfectly groomed hair.

"Hana!" The bird growled with a feminine, yet powerful voice. A girl then.

The small girl, Hana cowered behind the birds wings.

"Saved us? From that thing?" Asked one of the guards, kicking the dead Crazy's bloody corpse. "We could have dealt with her easy."

The bird laughed a dark, unfriendly laugh.

"What? What's so funny?" Asked the other guard.

The bird side-stepped revealing a girl crying over another body. One of them?

"She was a Red Data gone wrong at first. The scum chose the wrong side, that's all. She was strong, or would have been if we hadn't planted a bullet in her leg, but once she was cornered she snapped. It was too much for her and she became a crazy. In the blink of an eye she had tackled one of our men and killed him. Even trained fighters like me and my team were stunned for a few seconds. There is no way you could have taken her without losing someone." The bird was smiling as she remembered, it wasn't a happy smile. The smile was cruel and horrible and it worried Madoka.

She had to swallow nervously and take another calming breath before she spoke again.

"Thank you then, for saving us. I'm sorry about your team mate. I'm Madoka." She said, holding out her hand to the bird. She was trying to sound sincere but really she was just trying to save her team from the bird.

The bird crossed her arms and nodded.

"Halvah." She didn't take Madoka's hand in greeting so awkwardly she lowered it.

Before she had completely lowered her hand the short girl moved forward and shook it.

"I'm Hana, as Halvah already said. The dead one was John, the girl crying over him is Alex, the tough guy standing with his arms crossed is Kyle and this," she pointed to them all one by one before grabbing a tall man with a genuine smile on his face and sparkling blue eyes. "Is Aaron."

Aaron took Madoka's hand and shook it. He was attractive, not as attractive as he would be if she wasn't already in love with Satoshi, but still pretty attractive.

Suddenly off in the distance a screech was heard.

"Move out!" Shouted Halvah. Her well behaved team listened without hesitation.

"Nice meeting you! I hope to see you again!" Hana called over her shoulder as she ran with the rest of her team.

"Well… that was, interesting." Said one of the guards as he stared after them.

They stood watching the spot Halvah and her squad ran to long after they were out of sight. Finally Madoka got bored and turned on her heels to go back to bed wondering, had that all been a strange dream?

Hey guys I'm alive! Sorry I haven't updated in like forever! I had (and still kinda have writers block) I hope people are still reading this and I really am sorry for the delay and the fact that this chapter is kinda boring! Anyways comment if you want me to keep updating this! The more encouraging comments the faster the updates. You know the drill I need OC's but don't get attached because no one is safe! This is the first real chapter where no one has died… it's weird… And last but not least: Yes Aoyama was in the last chapter… I was made when I wrote it and I needed someone to take it out on… and I just really hate him sooooooo y'know… it happens but I promise he is the only canon character in the story! Had enough of my pointless talking yet? Well late merry Christmas/happy holidays and happy new year to everyone! And happy birthday to me! Cyniclon Shokora, out!