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Ten

Saya was thrown into the counter, shielding her face. She didn't know what, she didn't know why, all she did know was that it was Hagi, his arms and legs all bent towards protecting her, had done so. She couldn't see past the dishwasher.

"What's the matter? Who're you…" Kai stopped in his question, only backed into the wall. "What's going on?"

Saya only heard what seemed to be loud rasp, and something jumped toward them, landing on top of the counter. Hagi moved again, so that Saya was staring up toward the noise, only to be staring into his belt. She was too surprised and confused to do anything, her mind was whirling. It was late- was she dreaming? Maybe. Things like this didn't happen anymore. She grabbed onto a cabinet shelf as a thud made the ground shake, and Hagi jumped over the counter at whatever it was. An earthquake? Should she follow? Did they have earthquakes in Okinawa?

Only Kai was thrown in her direction, which made it impossible for her to move when her brother was on the floor, his eyes wide from the shock. She bent over his shoulder, seeing if he was going to bleed, when he didn't. Just shock.

Beyond the counter, the ground and floor seemed to shake, and Hagi and two other objects seemed to be darting everywhere. The windows broke as they darted in and out of the shops, sometimes taking pieces of the wall with them, sometimes not. She didn't care or see who is was, only hoped Hagi would resolve it quickly so she could figure it out…

Then, out of nowhere, a gunshot filled the air, so loud Saya cried out and covered her ears. Kai was bent over, groaning. He covered his ears and rolled over, rooted through the drawers of a cabinet and pulled out a gun.

More shots rattled Saya's eardrums. "What're you doing?" she screamed to Kai. What was he going to do? Shoot some more? "What's happening to us?" She cried again, but Kai's face was determined. "Hey, stay down!" She cried.

Kai only stood up abruptly past the shaking mess and fired four or five shots. They made his hand jolt, though he continued to shoot. The cry and another what seemed to be rasping or crying through teeth was let out with the bang of the gun.

Blood spurted across Saya's vision for the first time in years. Kai cried out and stumbled into the other counter as someone pulled their arm away from his wound, deep in his arm. A mass of heavy fabric fell over Saya, something bumped into her. She decided they were legs of some unknown person, and latched her arms onto them, holding them together with all her might, squeezing. The person took a confused step forward, Saya felt a foot grind inward toward her nose, and blood dripped from it. Flat on her face, she hauled herself up to be staring straight at…

Her scream echoed through the entire Omoro shop, that it made Hagi jump up. Karl Fei-Ong was hauled out of her vision before she could take a second glance through her squint-eyed vision she help. Struggling backward, she finally decided it was too crazy, too much, that she struggled against the counters to try and wake herself back into her small room upstairs…

"Solomon!" Karl cried, in Hagi's grasp as he was dragging him across the rubble mercilessly. Solomon was busying himself with James (who had popped in moments ago and fired a gun), their fighting range only a meter apart. Karl was suffocated uncomfortably by Hagi, and as his head reeled as he was thrown across the room into the wall. Hagi was coming at him again, he saw, he was dizzy, and he jumped over him to the other side of the room, dodging him. It was too much. James fired again, the shots missing the counters by the lights that hung around them, and Karl rushed toward Solomon, only to be dragged backward by Hagi again.

It was like a game of tug-o-war between them. They couldn't win unless either of them gave extreme force. Karl had already fought them that night, and he didn't want to again. Now they were risking too much. He knew he'd probably made an enemy out of Hagi, so that meant that he and Solomon didn't even have him to hope for help from with James. And Solomon was struggling with James like he was, they both had so little to fight with…

"Solomon!" He screamed, and Hagi took Karl by his shirt. "Leave!" It was all so stupid, Solomon wasn't going to win. He was just going to get all broken like chevaliers did, and Karl didn't know what to do with a body, so he figured he'd have to either haul Solomon out himself or he could leave now.

Luckily, he did, by jumping out the window. James then pointed his gun at Karl, and Hagi let go quick enough for the both of the to jump out of the way to avoid the shot. He jumped out the window, onto a street corner and repositioned himself.

"Karl!" Solomon said, and his brother made a motion to go back after him. Though Karl jumped back into the Omoro bar right as James had his gun pointed at the wounded Kai, not caring that it put him right back in the wrong spot. He grabbed James and exited back the way he came, planning on getting Solomon to help him find out where Itiedi was.

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