I'm finally back! After almost a month of not having access to a computer and sometimes even internet. A lot happened after I went out of the country to visit family and I had no time to even think about the story, still, I'm sorry for leaving you guys with that cliffhanger for so long.

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Chapter twenty-nine- This is reality, this is hell

"Nezumi..." Gareki said, "She is waiting for you..."

"What are you saying now?" The scientist turned his attention towards him with a serious expression. Gareki decided to ignore him and looked down at his bare feet, he was cold, but it was really painful to move his arms and asking for anything was against his pride.

He looked back at the place in where he had seen Nezumi. It had been so bizarre, but Elyurias had told him that someone that knew the song was coming and that she had been waiting. Seeing his brother appear in front of him had surprised him, but it made sense that one of his brothers also knows the song.

Nezumi had looked older that the picture taken years ago, but his eyes were the same silver as their mother. Just by looking at their eyes he could recognize their brothers anywhere. They were coming, soon they would be able to see him in person.

"Why do you refuse to acknowledge me?" The man asked. "I gave you all the power needed to do all you want, to archive things no normal person would. You're special!"

"That's your mind thinking, not mine." Gareki finally decided to say. His throat was still sore from all the screaming he did before, so his voice didn't carry all the anger he wanted to express.

"The drugs on your system are still affecting your judgment I see, when they disappear you will see the truth." The man said, placing his black jacket next to him. "But even then, Sir Karoku warned me about your temper, you're way too calm about your situation. With all that power inside of you, you might want to show everyone how powerful you are!"

The scientist paced around the room. "The others only lasted a few hours, some even survived a day, they felt all the power on their hands and showed us how devastating it could be." He turned towards Gareki. "So why wouldn't you?"

"I don't feel like putting up a show." Gareki said. "And where is Yukari?"

"Ahh, your friend." The scientist said placing his hand over his chin. "He has been attending meetings for the past four days. He is not allowed on this part of the lab, for... safety reasons. Now, it's time for you medication."

The man turned around and grabbed a metal collar from one of his pockets. He looked at it with enthusiasm and smiled at Gareki. "This is a special thing we made to help you use you power at his highest capacity." He moved in front of Gareki to put it on him, but Gareki leaned back.

"I'm not playing games here, you know?" The man said with a smile.

Gareki glared at him instead. "Neither am I, I'm not your pet."

"Of course not!" He laughed. "You're greater than that!" He pressed a button on the bracelet on his wrist and the doors opened to reveal two more scientists and a security guard. "We just want to make sure that you don't do anything that is not on our schedule yet."

The new people walked towards them and forced Gareki to lay down on the bed, holding his wrists and feet, immobilizing him. Usually he wouldn't had that problem if he had his strength and if his body didn't protested every time he moved. He tried to fight back but it was a lost cause. Gareki thought of using his powers but that would only cause more problems for him, since he had no energy, that wouldn't be enough to do the proper damage he need it.

"Stay still Gareki." The man ordered. He placed the collar around his neck. He could feel the cold metal even though he had bandages under it. He hear a 'click' sound and everyone let go of him. His now free hands went to his neck, were the collar was, and tried to take it away but had no luck.

"I will recommend that you don't try that. A powerful dose of your medication could be injected to you and that would be very dangerous." One of the scientists said.

"I don't need medication!" Gareki exclaimed, flinching a little after his vocal cords protested after his shouting.

"Ah, ah, ah." The man that apparently was the head scientist, and placed the collar on him, smiled. "You need to learn to follow orders. Sleep."

Gareki opened his mouth to tell him what he thought of following their annoying orders, but a groan came of instead. He felt the pain of something injecting a liquid on his neck coming from the collar. It didn't last, but he could tell that that wasn't good. His vision started to blurry and the voices around him started to fade. Gareki felt his body go sideways without any way of stopping himself, his mind became foggy and any fight left in him disappeared completely.

He was unconscious before he hit the bed.


"Kuroh take us to the ground!" Nezumi shouted. He grabbed Shion from the shoulder and hold into Kuroh while Kuroh placed his hand over Kanda's shoulder and the other one towards the ground. Kuroh's eyes shinned a soft blue and suddenly they had landed on top of something.

"Move out of the way!" Kanda shouted.

"Everyone against the wall." Ordered Nezumi, pushing both Shion and Kuroh away from the falling bodies. Apparently all the elevators were fake and all the people was been placed in the same area.

Shion heard the fearful screams and the sound of bodies hitting each other. "Nezumi what is…?" Panic overcame him after he received no answer, and he started to shout. "Nezumi!

Shion was forcefully turned around and hit the wall behind him with enough force to knock the air out of him. He opened his eyes but Nezumi was blocking his view.

"Look if you want to." Nezumi forced him to look directly into his eyes. "Listen if you want to. But if you do..." Nezumi moved his head to let Shion see what had been causing the horrible sounds. "You will have nightmares about this for the rest of your life."

A pile of corpses greeted him. Man and women, young and old, everyone was was either dead or agonizing. Some where killed at impact, but some others had a slow dead for been crushed by dozens of bodies falling over them.

Shion felt cold, really cold. His hands were shaking and his mind told him that cold wasn't the right word, it was numb. He suddenly started to question why did he wanted to come to this place. Nezumi told him multiple times that this wasn't a game, this was the real thing. Like the books that Nezumi loved to read, half of them ended in tragedy. But with a book he could just close it and never think of the ending again, or maybe he could, but dreams would fill his head instead of the picture that was now been presented to him.

"N-No...Ne...Nezumi...what the...what...is this?" Shion finally forced himself to ask. A scream from above and another body landed in the pile of corpses. The man had landed on his neck and the screaming stopped as fast as it had started.

"If you're going to look, look to the end." Nezumi said next to him. Shion wanted to look away but couldn't. "If you're going to listen, then listen well."

"Nezumi, enough." Kuroh said looking at both of them seriously.

"He wanted to come and play hero, he needs to know." Nezumi turned towards the pile and said what he knew was in Shion's head. "There was a man. There was a woman. There was an old woman with frizzy gray hair. A young girl with dark skin. A merchant with thin, sunken eyes."

"They were here, I saw them." Whispered Shion.

"This is hell. This is reality, this is the reality of the world you live in, Shion." Nezumi finished.

"And you think this is the best way to show him?" Kuroh challenged him. Nezumi looked at him and with raised eyebrows.

"This is the fastest way to learn what's going on under your nose. Sometimes you need a wake up call to truly understand."

"Like that's going to work." Kanda intervened. "If you didn't know, he was already weak, you're just pushing him into insanity, and I'm not going to wait for him to get your stupid ideas and put himself together. I have more things to do." Crossing his arms he started to walk towards a door on the other side of the room in which the few survivors were advancing.

"He is not like us, Nezumi." Kuroh said. "We will wait for you two ahead." And without looking back he left after Kanda.

"Blood...the smell of gore..." Shion couldn't hold it anymore. He felt the bile rise into his throat and he fought the urge to empty his stomach. "The sound of bodies breaking...The sound of people getting crushed under corpses...For the first time, I'm hearing the sound of bodies been destroyed."

Shion remembered the smell of fresh baked bread in the morning, the soft voice of his mother greeting him and the voices of usual costumers. He saw his workplace and his co-worker getting angry at the robots under their care. The fun conversations he had for hours with Safu before everything went wrong.

"I want to go back." Shion placed his hands over his face, hoping that it would shield him from the horrors around him. "I want to go back..to No.6."

Smack!

Shion blinked, surprise written all over his face.

"Shion." Nezumi said, his hand still in the air. "I'm not doing that twice."

The pain on his cheek was the only evidence of the slap he had received. He looked around and saw that Kuroh and Kanda were gone.

"Can you move?" Nezumi asked.

"Yeah...I can." He answered and used the sleeve on his sweater to touch his cheek. "If I don't move I'll die. And I didn't come here to die. I came here to save a life, I came here to live."He let the images of happy times fade from his mind and decided. "I'm going to survive this reality."

"We are going to run along those lights." Nezumi pointed towards the exit in which Kuroh and Kanda had gone to. "They light up for only a minute and a half. Come on." Both of them started to walk. Shion turned around to see a few more survivors slowly making their way too, he stepped over something sleepery and froze when he saw that it was blood, suddenly he felt the same feeling as before.

"This is real. This is real. This is real."

"Damn it!" Shion screamed and punched the wall. "I'll never forgive. I'll never let myself get used to this world, as long as I live!"

Nezumi stopped for a second and turned around to face him. "Follow me close, don't get separated." He didn't comment on anything and just keep on walking forward, turning his back on Shion without waiting for an answer.

"I won't." Shion thought. "I'll hang onto you, no matter how far we go."


I really, really hope I update at least another chapter before school starts, I will try my best! And for the people that don't know, I have an account on tumblr in which I uploaded some drawings and maybe in the future I will draw more, my user name is deadbringer013 for those interested.