Chapter 10: Welcome to Heavenly Host Elementary
"What the hell is this place?!" Yoshiki wailed. "I think we're in some old school. But..." Ms. Yui trailed. Ayumi, fleshed with impatience, looked at what appeared to be a
an old, tattered calender with faded lettering. "Let's see. Heavenly Host Elementary? 1953?! What the fuck is this shit?!" Ayumi whined and yelled. "Are you for real?"
Kishinuma questioned, following her lead and cross examining her discovery. "1953? Is someone that lazy where they can't even take down a calender from the 50's?"
He noticed a rickety old glass case containing what he rightfully guessed were textbooks. "Maybe the dates in these books can give us somewhat of an idea of what
time it is." Yoshiki flipped through the book and saw nothing but issues only recently discussed in a early 50's history book. Ayumi grew tired of waiting for him to find
anything and she took the book out of his hand and found nothing but the same things Yoshiki did. She went through the other books and turned white like a ghost.
All the books were from the 40's and 50's. "We really did go back in time." She dropped the book in trepidation and started to pace around the room. "Why is this
happening? Why is this happening?!" she yelled. "Calm the fuck down! We need to figure out were everyone else is first. Shouldn't finding our friends be top priority
anyways?" Yoshiki had never sounded so noble and Ayumi and Ms. Yui were very proud of him and followed his lead out the classroom. "I just hope poor Mayu is
alright. I don't think she needs any more stress right now." they all thought.
"Mnnn..." Mayu groaned. "Where am I? Where is everyone?" Her head darted across the entire room and she saw nothing but broken floorboards and askew desks.
Mayu wanted to find out where she was, but she was more concerned about the well being of her friends. She dusted off her uniform and walked out the classroom.
"Shig! Yoshiki! Satoshi! Seiko! Where are you guys?" The hallway was decrepit like the building it was housed in and Mayu diligently looked for any clues to help find
anyone. She heard the sound of a little girl crying and went to go investigate the source. The crying seemed to be coming from the girls bathroom and upon her
discovery, Suzume noticed the little girl wearing a slightly ragged red dress and long, flowing black hair covering her face. "Hey, are you alright? Do you need some
help?" The girl ran up to her and buried her face into Mayu's clothes. "What's wrong? Did someone hurt you?" She sniffled and said, "There's a scary man here. He
killed my friends and he's after me! I'm scared!" "Now, now. I'll help you out and protect you." Mayu felt sympathy for the girl and lead her out and up some stairs. "My
name's Mayu by the way. Mayu Suzumoto." "I'm Sachiko Shinozaki." "Sachiko? That's a pretty name. In fact, there's this charm me and my friends did called Sachiko
Ever After that brought us here, but...I don't know if my friends are ok. That's what I need your help with." "I'll help you save anybody that's lost here. Is that
allowed?" Mayu smiled at her innocent little face. "Yeah. I couldn't sleep at night knowing I could've saved someone and I just left." Mayu tightly held her hand and
tried to make light conversation with the girl to keep her from being scared. "I'm also looking for my boyfriend by the way. His name is Sakutaro but I like to call him
Shig. You'd like him. He's very nice." "Can I get a piggy back ride? They help me feel safe." Sachiko pleaded. Mayu couldn't refuse such a simple request and allowed
the girl to cling to her back. Mayu heard the sound of a baby crying in the distance. "Sachiko, we have to make a little pit stop. I hear a poor little baby crying. She must
be so scared being in this awful place." Mayu dropped Sachiko down and went to go look for the baby while still holding the little girl's hand. The sound seemed to be
coming from the infirmary and Mayu needed Sachiko's help to open the door because it felt very heavy. The baby wailed and cried louder as Mayu approached her.
"Hush...I won't hurt you." When Mayu tried cradling her and soothing her with lullabies, the child almost instantaneously rotted away bones and all. Mayu dropped
the dust that was a living person, fell on her back, and sobbed loudly. She rolled on the ground and cried for Kumi. "Who's Kumi, Ms. Suzumoto?" "She was my
daughter." "What happened to her?" "She was born dead." Sachiko looked sad and tried to make her feel better. "We need to go find your friends, Ms. Suzumoto."
"Just call me Mayu. My name is Mayu after all." Mayu replied, her eyes looking red from the tears. She let Sachiko continue her piggy back ride and, as selfish as it
sounded, had to go look for Morishige first. With him she could be relaxed and be more efficient in finding other victims trapped in this horrid school.
"Where is she? Mayu! Mayu! Where are you?" Morishige felt he had been looking for her for hours. He came here in a panic and tried to reason what had happened to
them. "How could we have been separated? We were holding each others hands while we fell in." There came the sound of a group of feet marching up the stairs to
where he was, and Morishige wanted to know who was coming but at the same time he wasn't absolutely sure he wanted to find out so he tried running away in the
other direction, but tripped on his own feet and fell against the floor. "Hey dude, you alright?" a masculine voice called out. Morishige groaned as the pain became
more apparent to him but he couldn't see who was checking on him because his glasses fell off his face when he fell. "What?" he called out to the voice. "Hey four
eyes! Are you fuckin' deaf or shit? Kizami asked if you were alright!" This voice too was masculine but unlike Kizami's, this one was more agitated and aggressive.
"Who's there? Is Mayu with you?" Shig was confused and slightly frightened. He didn't know if these voices talking to him were malevolent or benevolent or if they
were even real. "Who the fuck's Mayu? We're talking to and about you, dumbass! Now stand up for fuck's sake!" Morishige was more concerned with reaching his
glasses and tried moving his hand around to feel for them. He felt a strong guy shove him against the wall who then proceeded to kick Shig in the shins. "Kai! Jesus,
what's wrong with you?! He lost his glasses, stupid! He doesn't know what's going on so give him a break!" The voice yelling at the man was a female's voice. She
sounded strong and confident and was probably someone who had to tell this guy to calm down on a daily basis. Kai dropped Shig while Shig leaned against a wall.
Someone was coming even closer to him and offered him the glasses on the floor. "I would think these are yours. Here, take them." She was very soothing and gentle
but firm at the same time. She helped put them back on Morishige's face, and she smiled when she saw that he was more aware of his surroundings. "Thank you..."
"The name's Mitsuki Yamamoto and these are my friends. We're from Byakudan Senior High School, class 2-4 and we're stuck here too." Shig didn't care she
interrupted him, that was the least of his problems, and he allowed her to pick him up by the hand off the ground. "What's your name?" Mitsuki questioned. "Uhhhh...
Sakutaro Morishige. My classmates, girlfriend, and me did this charm thing and it brought us here." Shig's face was showing more of a look mixed with annoyance that
he grouped up with total strangers and the determined look that showed he was on a quest to find Mayu. "That's what happened to us." another female student
announced. "Yeah and it's all your fault! If you didn't insist we do that thing we wouldn't be here you dumb cunt!" Kai was very harsh with the girl. Her eyes teared up
and her face reddened and molded into guilt. "Kai, don't be mean. She didn't know and no one made you do the charm." The one confronting Kai was a meek looking
guy. He looked like the manifestation of a woman's desire for a sensitive man who was able to cry and be emotional. "Ohkawa, why don't you shove Ryosuke's cock up
your ass since you love it so much?" Kai laughed. "Kai, stop it! This is no time to be rude. We've got to look around for a way out or else we'll die here." Mitsuki
informed him. He looked at her like he was surprised but soon followed her lead. "So you said you have a girlfriend? What does she look like?" This was the same girl
who Kai accused of getting them trapped here. "Of course he doesn't Tohko..." "Kai if you keep it up we're leaving you here." Morishige continued with his commentary.
"Yes I do have a girlfriend. Her name is Mayu. She's got the most beautiful brown hair and the most precious green eyes. I love her more than anyone." "Ok, Morishige.
We'll help you find her and everyone else." Mitsuki promised. "Thanks." he grinned sheepishly. "She doesn't care about her! She only cares about herself!" Shig said to
himself. "Hey! There's a science room just down the hall. Maybe there's some supplies or something useful in there." Kai announced. Tohko looked at him in shock
because he was being genuinely serious and selfless. While they wandered down the hall, the building shook violently with the floorboards starting to remove
themselves from their foundations thus beginning a formation of a hole. Ohkawa got over the hole as it was being born. Ryosuke jumped high over the widening hole
with Kizami and a girl named Emi following his lead. Tohko tried to jump over the widened abyss but found herself clinging for dear life at the edge. She was about to
fall in before Kai grabbed her. "Tohko, take my hand and don't you fucking let go!" Her eyes widened as he grunted from pulling her body up out of harm's way. Mitsuki
and her friends Fukuroi and Kurosaki weren't able to cross over. Shig couldn't make it over to the other side either. "You alright Tohko? We almost lost you there." She
had never seen Shimada this concerned for anyone before, especially a girl. "Well, it looks like we're splitting up for the time being. You guys do what you need to do
and we'll do what we need to do. We meet back here in an hour or two. Got it?" Fukuroi commanded. The larger group left for down the hall while Sakutaro's group left
to go look downstairs. "O shit! I forgot my paper doll scrap! I'll be right back!" Yamamoto ran upstairs in a rush and picked up her paper scrap. "Whew. Thought I lost
you." she smiled. When she got up from her kneeled down position, Mitsuki noticed the hole covering the floor was gone and the hallway looked different. In fact, it
wasn't even the same hallway. It's like they were on the other side of the school or something. "Aghh!" The boys ran upstairs to see what was wrong. "What's
wrong Yamamoto?" Kensuke tried to console her but she was so frightened at the time she couldn't be helped. "Look! We're not even in the same side of the school
anymore!" Fukuroi looked out the window and despite the downpour he did notice the slight difference in scenery. They definitely were in another place. Morishige
became more frightened as he knew he must be farther away from Mayu and worried how she would do on her own. "I won't rest until I find her! I will find her!" He
kept this creed in his heart and worked with the other three students to find her, but he couldn'tve cared less about what happened to them as
horrible as that sounded.