Chapter 11 everyone! I was meant to post this yesterday but it got really late so I decided to post it as soon as I woke up in the morning. It's afternoon now but... better late than never.

I haven't really anything to say about this chapter. It's long enough and I must say I'm quite happy with it. Just so you all know, a counterpart's body does not go the Otherworld, just their soul. Like, when you have a dream your body stays put in he real world and your mind and soul go else where. Something like that.

Also, I may have used a idea from the OVA of BRS, see if you can spot it xD

So I'm gonna shut up now and let you all read the chapter.

Remember: All reviews and feedback is greatly welcomed!

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We all get more than one chance to make things right

"Matoooo quit day dreaming! Seriously, is your brain back at home or something?"

Mato jolted up into a sitting position from her slouching one and shook her head. Her eyes blinked once and went back into focus. Blue eyes met annoyed amber ones. Yuu was frowning at her, hands on the tiny hips. Mato rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. "Heh heh, sorry Yuu. What were you saying?"

Yuu shook her head and sighed impatiently. "It doesn't matter now." She narrowed her eyes and looked suspiciously at her blue eyed friend. "What were you thinking about anyway?"

Mato swallowed and looked down at her navy converse. What was she thinking about?;

Why she was getting these strange aches and pains in her heart and in her head. Sudden dizziness. Feeling like someone or something was trying to pull her somewhere. The biggest thought in her head was about Black Rock Shooter. Did her Otherself not want to see her? Did her Otherself hate her? Was that special time spent with her Otherself only three days ago just a dream her sympathetic mind gave her?

Mato shook her head and tried to smile her best at her small friend. "Nothing." she said simply.

Yomi and Kagari were sitting opposite Mato. Kagari gave Mato a funny look and Yomi looked worried. And Yuu still looked suspicious. The small girl pouted and narrowed her eyes.

"Now I definitely know that something is up. When does Mato Kuroi ever say nothing? Never. Now, spill!" she shuffled over on the floor of Yomi's room so she sat crossed legged in front of Mato who was sitting stiffly on Yomi's bed.

Mato still insisted that nothing was on her mind. "Honestly Yuu, I'm just tired. I stayed up late last night..reading my Little Bird Book..." she smiled tightly. Yomi placed her hand on Mato's knee and gave her one of those funny half smile looks. "She's not going to give up until you tell us, Mato."

Mato's smile dropped and she crossed her arms in front of her, narrowing her blue eyes a little. Yuu knew it. Something was definitely on her blue eyed friend's mind. Yuu then thought about how much Mato looked like her Otherself, especially when she marrowed her eyes and looked pissed. Then everything fell in place. Ohhhhh...

Yuu's expression softened and her voice became quiet. "This is about Black Rock Shooter, isn't it?" Mato was quiet. Then she sighed and leaned forward, resting her elbows on her knees and putting her face into her cupped hands. "I...I know I've done something wrong. The other night was perfect until I went back again and..she sent back because of some weird monsterous thing and I just..Ugh!" she lifted her head from her hands a little so she could look at Yuu, who was frowning. "Mato, when did you go back the second time?" she asked quietly. So quietly it put Mato on edge a little. Mato brushed her hand through her messy bangs, sighing. "Two days ago. I thought she'd be happy to see me again. But when I arrived in the Otherworld and went to look for her, I heard this growl behind me. So, I turned around to see what it was, and then I seen this horrible, ugly looking creature. It looked a really oversised wolf, all ugly and wrong. Then it started to run after me, so I turned around and tried to run away from it. I fell over my own stupid feet, which was a good advantage to that wolf-thing, cause it pushed me down on the ground, and all I could see was it's horrible, horrible mouth drooling with stuff ready to... I think it was going to eat me but just before it did anything, I heard this horrible, sickening slicing noise and then it split into two, like, right down the middle split in two, and blood and everything just went splashing everywhere. So, realising that the thing was dead, I tried to get up and run from it, but I ended up running right into Black Rock Shooter. I was kinda shaken up so I started crying. She tried to comfort me but.. She sent me back. I don't get it. The night before she said she wanted to talk to me again but then she sends me back. I don't get it..." Mato trailed off, eyes staring at the floor.

Yuu inhaled deeply, and dread came over her. My idiotic friend has no clue about what is going to happen, does she?.. Yuu glanced over at Yomi and Kagari, who were giving her the 'Does she not know?' look. Yuu closed her eyes and let out a shaky breath. "Mato, have you any idea what is happening in the Otherworld? Did Rock tell you anything at all?" Mato sniffed and looked plainly at Yuu. "No. She didn't seem very willing to let me stay the night before to tell me anything.." she muttered stubornly.

Yuu gritted her teeth together and stood took a step closer to Mato and rested her hands on the blue eyed girl's shoulders. "Mato, the reason she sent you back was because she was trying to protect you! Mato, you have no idea what is happening right now. What is going to happen! There is a pit that contains a source to opening a portal in the sky. That creature that you seen? Creatures even bigger than that at going to fly through that portal, creatures bigger than our flipping school! They're going to kill everything in their path, and hell is going to be unleashed. They have a creator, a leader, master, who is planning on destroying everything in the Otherworld in order to create something he never got to finish. Your Otherself, Black Rock Shooter, has been working her butt off to try and strengthen about seven thousand Otherselves in order to face off a battle bigger than any battle they will have ever fought. Your Otherself, who your are complaining 'about not speaking to you and sending you back home', is trying to bloody protect you! She could die, Mato! Strength could die. Dead Master could die. Chariot could die. Gold Saw could die! And do you know what is going to happen to us? We may be sucked into the Otherworld, our soul, that is. We could die aswell! But, luckily, every Otherself is fighting together, as one. They're all willing to help each other. But still, by end end of this war, there may only be just four thousand otherselves left. Out of seven thousand. Three thousand, dead. I...ack!"

Yuu stumbled back, clutching her head tightly, face screwed up in pain. Mato was panicky about all of this information she was receiving, and her distress increased futher when Yuu dropped to her knees, one hand on the floor holding her small body up, the other still clutching her head.

"Yuu!" Mato shouted, got up from the bed and tried to hold her friend up, but then Yuu's whole body gave out and she slumped back into Mato's arms, unconscious. She then heard another groan. Mato's paniced eyes swiveled over to Kagari, who too was clutching her head in pain. Yomi was desperately trying to get her friend to regain her normal state, but to no avail. Kagari too, for some reason passed out. Yomi's face was panicky like Mato's, but then she winced. "Mato, what's going on, I don't.. feel..." and she too slumped to the ground, Kagari's limp body lying across her, unconscious. Mato's blue eyes were wide in panic, scared. Only thirty seconds ago, Yuu was shouting in her face some crazy stuff about a battle that could kill every single Otherself, including Rock, and then the next thing she knew, her three friends were slumped over unconscious. Mato suddenly let out a pained gasp, her mouth open, clutching her chest area were her heart was. Her heart was beating way too fast, and she felt like it was twisted the wrong way. Her eyelids started to close over and her head felt too heavy for her neck. No..don't give in.. Mato desperately held onto the bed, teeth clenched together, but then her legs gave out from her, and the her vision, everything, went black.

In a large black room, with dim purple lights and mirrors was a black throne. The throne looked cruel, with black spikes sticking out from every angle, chains linked around the arm rests and on the crown of the throne. On the black throne sat a young man. He was very young, appeared to be not a day older than fifteen. His hair was jet black, and his eyes were the most unusual combination of colours. The top of his iris was blood red colour, before fading and blending into a insane looking purple, then it too faded out and blended into a golden yellow, then it lastly blended out into a striking blue. Those multi coloured eyes stared ahead, unblinking. The young man's face was pale, as was the rest of his body. His clothes consisted of black flared trousers and combat boots, all spikes and chains. He was shirtless, his stomach was well toned and muscly, but not overly muscly. On his shoulders was a black cloak, similar to Black Rook Shooter's. His arms, legs and bare torso were chained to the throne, tightly.

The young man appeared to be waiting.

Patiently.

Then, down the long black mirrored hall came the sound of heeled footsteps. They walked evenly. Left, right, left right. Those footsteps then stopped in front of the young boy, as they had been doing over the past half year. Then, a cold and slightly..crazed..female voice said;

"Is it time, Master?"

Multi-coloured eyes blinked at last. Then, the young masters lips ever so slightly curved upwards, and in one swift moment he stood up, chains breaking apart from his limbs like they were nothing. In strong movements, he stepped away from the throne and stopped just above the steps that led down to the hard, black marble floor. A small rumble shook the black mirrored room. The young master's smile increased a little more and he stretched out his arm, hand hovering and his pale fingers extended. In the palm of his down turned hand, purple magic began to appear. It grew and grew until there was a purple flash, and in his hand he held the most cruelest looking sword one would ever set their eyes on. It was about four meters long and half a meter wide. One of it's edges were jagged, the other sharp. Just before the handle started, there was a purple hovering circle, centered between two pointed golden tips. Then the handle started and ended just a little past the young master's pale hand.

The young man's mouth suddenly opened widely and out came a laugh. Not a happy laugh, sad laugh, crazed laugh, sarcastic laugh. It was just a laugh that shook the ground, made the ceiling purple tinted chandeliers shake. His multicoloured blinked once and then were closed over by pale eyelids and fanned by long ,thick, black lashes. He inhaled deeply and smiled ever so slightly.

"Yes."

Multi-coloured eyes reopened and stared at the huge, spiked, heavy black door down the black mirrored hall, and pale lips curved up into a full on smile.

"It is time."

Dead was worried. She felt her heart thug and knew that her counterpart had crossed the connection barrier, which meant that her desperate acts to close it hadn't worked. Her green heels sprinted across the ground, scythe swinging expertly in her hand. She had changed out of her elegant frilly black dress into a dress more figure hugging, and because of its decreased length she also wore a pair of black leggings underneath. Her sprint was fast, but as the ground shook and rumbled she had to reluctantly slow up a little. She gritted her teeth together in concentration as she hopped and jumped over falling pillars, and as she was in mid air, her heart panged again, stronger this time. Yomi must be near by.

"Yomi!" Dead called out, picking up her sprint as she landed, green eyes scanning over the rocky terrain. There! She seen something move, just behind a large boulder. She sprinted over to the boulder, slowing up just a few meters away from it. She slowed right down to a fast walk, and slowly approached the the large boulder. Then she dared to whisper.

"Yomi?" she whispered softly. She heard a gasp, and then a familiar face peered around the side of the boulder. Yomi.

The young green eyed girl gasped again and scrambled to her feet, tripping over them in the process of her mad scramble and fell into Dead's arm's. "Dead.." she whispered, fearfully, "What's going on?"

Dead hugged the girl close and whispered back. "We're not safe here. We need to regroup with the others. The portal is soon going to open. Come. Let me carry you." and before Yomi could say anything else, Dead scooped her into her arms and broke into a full sprint. "Everything's going to be OK."

Yuu opened her eyes and groaned. Through her heavy eyelids, she could see metal.

Wait, metal?

Her amber eyes snapped fully wide open and she she tried to move, but realised that she was in a firm grip. Just before she could panic, she heard a familiar voice. "Yuu, it's time. Forsaken Day has arrived. We need to regroup with Rock and the others." Yuu looked up and stared Strength's concentrating face. "Strength.." Her otherself's eyes flicked down to Yuu's face. "Yes?" she answered. Yuu swallowed before opening her mouth and said,

"When we get there, I need to tell you all something. I.. I have an idea."

Kagari stood by Chariot, who was standing beside Gold Saw and Saya. Even though she was reasured over a dozen times that everything was going to be OK, Kagari was still uneasy. She tugged on Chariot's sleeve, fear evident on her face. Chariot looked down and smiled, placing her clawed hand on Kagari's shoulder. "I promise you, everything is going to work out. The others are all nearly here. We are all in this, together." She then wrapped her arm protectively around her counterpart's shoulder and looked on. Kagari inhaled and exhaled, her face grim. In front of her, over six thousand otherselves had joined together, all with their counterparts, and from a distance, she could see many more running over to the gathering cluster.

She then heard a slight bit of panting coming from behind herself and turned to look. Dead and Strength were running together with Yomi and Yuu in their arms. They screeched to a halt just behind Gold Saw and Chariot, who turned around to see who it was. Strength and Dead let their counterparts down onto their feet. Strength was about to open her mouth to say something, but then Gold Saw cut in front of her.

"Where is Black Rock Shooter?"

Rock ran as hard as her legs would allow her, which was really fast. Blue eyes narrowed in concentration, pearly white teeth gritted together.

Mato...

She needed to find her. She knew she was here, in the Otherworld, which meant her desperate acts to close the barrier didn't work. But at the moment it didn't matter; she needed to find Mato.

Rock leaped over a fallen pillar, and as she was in midair, she seen a small girl with black pigtails run up a steep slope.

Mato!

As soon as Rock landed, she pushed on, and soon enough she reached the top of the slope were her counterpart was looking madly around herself, desperate to find a exit.

Only there was no exit.

Rock quickly inhaled and shouted her counterpart's name. "Mato!" Mato whipped around on her heel, and relief was immediately evident on her face. "Rock!" she yelled and ran towards her Otherselves open arms. "You found me.." she whispered tearfully. Rock sighed in relief and sweeped the smaller girl into her arms. "Come on, they're all waiting."

"She's not here? Then were the heck is she?!" Strength shouted over the loud rumbling of the ground. All seven thousand otherselves were standing uneasily below the small cliff that Rock had stood on when she had announced that she would happily lead all otherselves to victory as much as she could. Gold Saw was looking around anxiously, trying to spot their young raven haired leader, but she wasn't anywhere in sight.

Dead swung her scythe uneasily.

Strength looked pissed.

Chrariot kept giving Kagari short resuring smiles.

And Gold Saw was on the verge of exploding.

"Where the hell is she?! What happened to 'I will lead you to victory as much as I can'? She's not even-"

"Shut your mouth. I'm here.." The four otherselves and their counterpart's all turned around to see their blue eyed leader standing with Mato held firmly in her arms. She let Mato down onto her feet an kept her arm wrapped protectively around her shoulders. "Have we any last ideas?" she asked hurriedly. Then Strength finally got to open her mouth and say what she wanted to say earlier.

"Yuu has an idea.." she said and turned to her counterpart, smiling encouragingly. Yuu nodded. "I know that for a Otherself to fight and look after their counterpart at the same time is going to be very difficult. That's why I thought, what if a Otherself and their counterpart joined? That way, an Otherself could fight without having to worry about their counterpart, because they are one with them." she finished strongly, quite pleased with her little plan. The five otherselves were silent in front of her. Rock raised her balled gloved fist up to her face level and unfolded it. "It could work.." she murmured. Yuu looked at Strength and held out her hand. Strength nodded and held out her own ogre hand. When their hands joined together, a bright orange flash errupted brightly from their joined together hands. Yuu's feet then lifted off the ground, as did Strength's. Yuu smilled encouragingly at her friends before closing her eyes and concentrating. Her small body started to become see through, and then her body started to touch Strength's, the bright orange flash becoming bigger as Yuu joined closer with Strength. Soon, her whole transparent body was almost joined together with Strenght's, and then the bright orange flash engulfed Strength's whole being before it disapeared, revealing Strength to be standing perfectly normally on the dusty ground. Strength's eyes opened and flashed over to were Yuu had been standing. They widened for a moment before she started to giggle.

"I can hear her in my head." she giggled. Rock let out a tiny gasp, and turned to her fellow Otherselves. "This will work!". Then whipped around on her heel to face the waiting cluster of Otherselves below her. Apparently, only two thousand otherselves managed to close their connection barrier with counterpart, which left five thousand still standing worriedly beside their counterparts. Rock took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

"Otherselves! Join with your counterpart. Become one with them!" she took a step back and held her hand out to Mato, who was looking at her..with a look Rock couldn't name.

Dead giggled and held her own hand out to Yomi, who smiled trustingly up at her and placed her hand in her Otherself's clawed one. They both closed their eyes and a bright green flash erupted from their joined together hands.

Chariot smirked down at Kagari, who was still looking a bit dumbfounded. "I told ya everything was going to be OK." Kagari gave her a look before smiling and placing her hand in Chariot's, and then a orange flash too erupted from their joined together hands.

Gold Saw sighed and gave her counterpart a small smile. "Back to business, huh?" Saya laughed quietly. "Like the good old times..", and she too placed her hand in Gold Saw's clawed one, and as a red flash erupted from their joined hands, Saya's body becoming transparent.

Rock still held her hand out to Mato. She dropped her gaze to ground and said quietly. "I know I haven't really talked or communicated with you in any way in the past few days, and I'm sorry for that. But can yo-" she was cut off by Mato wrapping her arms around Rock's tiny waist. "It's OK, I was being an idiot who expected far to much from her Otherself.." Rock sighed in relief and she too hugged he smaller girl back. "Come on, let's do this." Mato pulled away and placed her hand in Rock's. The brightest of blues erupted from their joined hands. Mato closed her eyes, as did Rock, and their bodies became one with each other. As Rock's feet touched the ground again, she opened her eyes, and from her left eye a bright blue flame erupted.

The five otherselves now joined with the counterpart's, then joined hands with each other, and stood facing the the Otherselves who were becoming one with their counterparts. Flashes of green, red, blue, yellow, orange, pink, happy purple was flashing from everywhere and after about one minute the flashes died down and their was not a human counterpart in sight. The place was silent. In Rock's head, Mato whispered, "Please be OK..". Rock smiled the softest of smiles and nodded. "We are one, Mato, and we are now stronger than ever." she whispered back. Rock closed her eyes, for a moment, taking in the silence all around her. And then she felt it.

The ground shook violently. In the distance, one could see pillars falling, cracks forming in the rocky ground. The sky looked stormier than ever. Then, they could see it.

A bright purple beam shot into the sky and looked like it hit something, because a sudden wave went across the sky, like a barrier being hit. Then, the portal formed, small at the start and slowly growing bigger in large purple swirls.

Rock then suddenly felt her right hand being squeezed gently. She looked to her right only to see Daed Master smiling ever so gently at her, encouragingly. Rock nodded, and her lips curved upwards ever so slightly back. Dead whispered. "We'll all get through this." before looking on ahead of herself, green eyes fixed on the purple swirl in the sky.

Just before anything else happened, Rock remembered her duty. What she had to do. And the first thing was encouragement. Opening her mouth, she let her battle cry words break the silence.

"For Today, For Tomorrow, For Them, For Us!"

Then hell rained through the portal.