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Shizuo flinched as the deathly weapon landed next to him with a clang. He looked up, surprised that Saika actually dropt the blade. Saika's eyes were huge in disbelief as she stared to her left. Stared at the little raven that was trying to catch his breath. Izaya's knife made Saika drop her sword. The raven was shaking in terror, to young to be able to handle all the violence that he's been thrown into. His legs betrayed him and he fell down on the platform, catching himself with his arms. Saika swiftly jumped from Shizuo reaching for her blade. Her eyes pierced the younger child with hate and disappointment.
"Weak, too weak. Have to make…strong…"
Izaya backed away from the threatening figure, trying to look as small as he could. Giving up, he closed his eyes as Saika reached for the blade to slice him with.
"No you don't!"
Shizuo lunged himself from where he was left and knocked Saika down. She let out an inhuman shriek. Shizuo groaned as the piercing sound invaded his ears making them bleed. Izaya clasped his hands over his ears, curling up on himself in defense. The shrike was so loud that it broke the spell previously put and Shizuo could see how everybody else woke up from their daze as they screamed at the shrike that hurt their ears.
"Kahkahkahahahahkakgh You…you…I want…you…Heiwajima…Orihara…both…I want…both…karghkakhargh…"
Shizuo shivered as he felt Saika's body become slick and cold as blood. She slipped under him with ease, laughing like a maniac as one of her eyes turned to Shizuo and other to Izaya. Big grin appeared on her face.
"M-monster." Shizuo heard Izaya whisper in terrified tone.
He was right.
The crazy girl was turning into a monster.
Her dress was starting to seep shadows, much like Celty's neck did, blood leaked from her eyes and her arms. Her hair was getting up in frenzy as if caught by an angry wind spirit. Her grin just turned wider and wider until it became humanly impossible to grin the way she did. She didn't blink, she didn't breathe, she just grind.
And then her arm turned into cold metal blade.
She launched at Shizuo first and the brunet had to quickly roll out of the way to avoid the impact. He found himself next to Izaya and felt the smaller boys arms clung at him desperately, searching for protection. Saika's blade-arm got stuck into the platform and she chuckled as she tried to get it out. Shizuo reacted fast and grabbed Izaya by the scruff of his shirt and pulled him along as he jumped from the platform and into the run.
He heard Saika's crazy laughter as she managed to pull out her blade from the concrete. He could feel Izaya's irregularly fast heart beat echo his own as fear washed over him. He could see the death trap he led the boy in, trying to escape from the cold demise. There was no hope. Death was before them and death was behind them.
There was no escape.
Saika was only a few steps behind, both of her arms turned into thin blades now, as she balanced around the deathly projectiles, laughing as if she was having the time of her life. Shizuo felt Izaya slip and trip behind him; the boy was too small to keep up, his breathing already rasping from the pace he wasn't used to.
"Hold on, Izaya, just a little more." He tried to urge the boy on.
He forgot that he was dealing with a genius here.
"Little more until what? Until we get fried or hit by one of the projectiles? Little more until she catches up and kills us both?" The boy chuckled through his tears, giving him an exhausted grin; "If I die, the game is over and you get to live." He informed.
Shizuo frowned, pulling Izaya around another platform, trying to lose the slasher girl. Suddenly he felt Izaya struggle from his grasp, trying to wiggle out of Shizuo's firm grip.
"What do you think you're doing, flea!"
"Repaying you, my life for yours." Izaya smirked weakly as he finally broke free from his grasp and sprinted away.
"Izaya, wait!" Shizuo yelled, turning around trying to catch the younger boy, but the raven agilely avoided him and jumped on one of the fire canons that randomly fired.
He smiled softly to Shizuo before throwing both of his arms in the air and shouting on the top of his lungs; "Hey psycho I'm over here, try to get me if you can~"
"IZAYA!" Shizuo yelled as he made his way to the canon, hoping to get there in time to pull the younger one out of the harms way.
He was interrupted with a wall rising right in front of him, making Izaya disappear from his sight. The arena was turning into a maze. A bobby-trapped maze. His chances of saving Izaya grew slimmer and slimmer by the minute.
"IZAYA!" He yelled once more trying to get any response from the younger boy.
The only thing that responded him was Saika's insane laughter that followed the sound of her rapid footsteps. Shizuo ran, he ran as fast as he could, trying to catch up with the maze and find his way to Izaya. He heard an ear piercing sound as Saika's blades started scratching the walls as if sharpening them for the kill. He turned the corner and saw…
…saw as Saika jumped in for the kill.
Saika launched herself from the ground in a perfect form, her hair fluttering behind, her eyes locked on to her target. She was like a panther caught in mid leap and Izaya was her prey. Everything felt like in slow motion, Shizuo could see every single ruffle of Saika's dress dance in he air, he could see as her hands drew back to give her extra speed, looking like two metallic wings piercing the air. He could see as Izaya closed his eyes, preparing for the death. He could see as the boy shook in fear but refused to run. He could see as Saika reached up to pierce his forehead.
He could see the tiny droplets of blood that appeared.
Flying through the air.
Lading on the floor and black fabric.
As their holder fell on to the platform motionless.
He could see as one of the needles from the wall holes shot Saika and she fell down in front of bewildered Izaya.
Who could not believe he was still alive.
The needle shot Saika, releasing some blood from the rough impact, stopping the girl in attempt to kill her prey.
It was not the original purpose of the bobby-trap needles.
But Shizuo didn't care.
"IZAYA!" he yelled springing into run yet again.
There was a chance.
There was a hope.
"SHIZU-CHAN!"
They could make it.
They could live.
Izaya's confused but happy smile told him just that.
They'll live.
They'll both live.
He returned the smile as he closed in to the fire canon that Izaya was standing on. Izaya jumped of it, eager to reunite with his friend.
His smile was whipped away as another threat sprang from shadows, pining the smaller boy to the floor. Izaya yelled in surprise trying to wiggle away.
But Ran was merciless.
His eyes were filled with uncontrollable rage as he lifted the pipe to smash it into Izaya's head. The raven quickly dodged, managing to break free from the hold and ran back to the canon, trying to lose Ran by using agility again.
His plan was stopped as a metal pipe was lunged his way, hitting him precise and hard. The raven fell to the floor in front of the canon and Ran approached him, slowly, leisurely, like a cat approaching a bird with broken wings.
Shizuo picked up his pace, grabbing one of he spikes on the way to hurl it at the boy. That plan was put down when Ran picked up Izaya by his neck, making it impossible for Shizuo to hit Ran without hitting Izaya too.
Izaya struggled in the strong grasp that stopped his air flow. He scratched at Ran's hand as life slowly escaped from him, his vision growing hazy as Ran's chuckling and insults bombarded his ears.
"So worthless and weak. You can't even stay alive for very long when you don't have your little dog at your side."
Izaya struggled to breathe as he watched Ran's fading face.
Until something else caught his attention. Even with his mind as scared and hazy as it was he still managed to indentify the treat.
His eyes grew large and his shaking increased and by seeing that Ran too turned around to see what got the raven so scared.
Ran's eyes grew wide in horror.
The throat of the canon was red with flames that were rushing out to feed.
Shizuo watched in horror as Ran threw himself on the floor…
…only a second too late.
The flames licked the air, searching the floor, slithering to find their food.
Ran's and Izaya's screams filled the air.
A.N: Well this was a very eventful chapter~ Man do I like this story, it is so fun to leave a cliffhanger. I'm sorry that I was unable to update for a while, but I have school now, so my writing will probably be reduced to weekends and maybe Mondays of my school-in-the-morning week, cuz those are really easy. Anywise Leonie I really loved your title ideas and I might use the in the future but I'm still searching for something that will be perfect for this. It is so hard.
But I am thinking of altering a little one of Leonie's titles and making it something like: Experimentation-bloody adolescence.
But it is a story of love to, so I'm not quite sure. Your thought and reviews make my day so blab here as much as you want.
