A/N: Probably not the best Chapter. I hope you enjoy anyways!

It was the day.

Was there such thing as time travel? Rin wished there was so she could travel to the future and skip this day entirely. These quests brought nothing but trouble she had realized in the few days she hadn't been on one.

But if there was a time machine there definitely wasn't enough time to get one as she was sitting in the living room, waiting to go on this quest. Megurine-san hadn't walked in yet; a good thing by her standards, probably a bad thing by everyone else's.

And what would you know— Megurine-san walked in the room, carrying two of those inscribed daggers with her. The door closed behind her silently, her hair covering some of her face. All eyes were on her; Rin wondered how she managed that all the time, 'that' being keeping her cool under the watches of many.

"Rin, Len, these are yours." The pink-haired walked over and inserted the daggers into their hands, to both blond's obvious surprise. The reason was immediately explained, though, as Megurine-san continued. "You two will be the first to go to the Other Side."

Rin stared, confused. Was the "Other Side" that place where the Miar was? If so, that made sense; what didn't make sense was why Megurine-san was suddenly calling it by name now.

And why was she sending her and Len? That made absolutely no sense.

"Rin I know has the future, and I know Len will be safe." Megurine-san seemed to speak as if she could read Rin's thoughts. "You two will go now."

"How do you know it'll just be us?" Rin asked suddenly. "Because-"

"It's not a random event, Rin," the pinkette answered. "I send you two across the border."

And with that, the darkness started to envelope her. Before she could even think about protesting she couldn't speak, and before she could process it completely she blacked out.

0o0o0o0

Rin awoke, sprawled out on a gray ground, a knife in her hand.

"What the..." She murmured to herself, before remembering why she was here. "Of course." She sighed, sitting up.

She still couldn't understand why she had to be sent first. She never even saw the future for this; did Megurine-san just assume she did? If so, she was terribly wrong. She wouldn't even be on the target if she was throwing darts.

But Megurine-san did saw that Rin saw the future. She even said "I know" about it. But she never asked about it. Was it supposed to be normal for Rin to see the future all the time?

"Um." Rin jolted out of her thoughts, remembering Len had come too by Megurine-san's orders. "I know Len will be safe", she had said. The pinkette probably just had nobody else to give Rin so she did that. "W-What are we..."

"I honestly don't know," Rin huffed, crossing her arms. "Megurine-san decided to send us on a death mission without us knowing anything."

"You mean-"

"Yeah. I haven't seen the future recently."

"Then why would she say you did? Did she even talk to you?"

"No, she didn't. I guess she wants to believe that I did so something will be okay." Rin shrugged. A lot of things had been going wrong as of then; maybe Megurine-san assumed she'd done it or the pinkette was deceiving herself. Rin twirled the knife in her hand. "So, what are we supposed to do?"

Len gave a small shrug. "I-I thought I was supposed to listen to you..."

"Alright then." Rin stood up, grinning. "If you want to, you can listen to everything I say. And then do it."

"Well, if you're not supposed to, then don't!"

Rin broke out laughing. "I'm joking, Len. I have no idea how to order someone around anyways."

"All the more reason not to do it," He murmured. Rin rolled her eyes.

"Didn't I just say I wasn't going to? You didn't have to listen to me anyways." She sighed, "I guess we have to go, though. Fight the Miar or whatever."

"Yeah..." Len stood up. "Let's go."

It was then, walking through cave-like tunnels, that Rin hated. It wasn't the fact it was dark, or the fact she had absolutely no idea where they were going.

It was the fact she felt super awkward walking and she didn't know why.

She walked as if every one of her steps were being watched and she had to walk in a certain way. She herself felt stiff and unnatural and just... awkward. She kind of didn't want to be there anymore. She almost wished they were separated instead, that's how bad her awkwardness got.

Soon they came upon an opening. The tunnel widened up to a cavern the size of a bedroom, with the ceiling open in the middle of it. It didn't help with the darkness, however, as it was suddenly night.

But something was noticeably off in the center of the room. If Rin looked closely, she could see a blob of darkness. Could Miars be deformed? She didn't know, but if they could, that was definitely one of them. If they couldn't, then what was it? She decided to assume it was in fact a deformed Miar, and started to ponder what to do with it.

"What should we do with that?" Rin asked, pointing at the "Miar" with her knife. "It could be some type of deformed Miar, or... I don't know what else it'd be."

"W-We might as well kill it, I guess," Len murmured. "What else could it be, anyways?"

Rin walked towards the blob in the center of the room, holding out her knife in front of her. She stared at the odd creature for a second before stabbing it, watching the liquid air flow out of it.

But then a pair of eyes opened. She quickly tore her dagger out of it, stepping backwards as the blob started to expanded. Soon it had horns, claws, and a look of fury in its eyes.

Oh crap.