One Lucky Girl

Shi rushed to Melody's room. He didn't waste a single second and began banging on the door as hard as he could trying to get her attention. "Melody! Melody! Melody!" Shi shouted as he pounded on the door again and again. The large door was rattling with his pounds and the locks on the other side of the door made it even louder as the metal chain clanged against the door. "Come on wake up! Ash, Xander, Michael, and May need us! They could die horrible deaths because you were lying in bed sleeping!"

Melody wiped her eyes clean as she sluggishly pulled her feet off of her bed and onto the floor. She stood up and walked towards the door still only half-dressed in her pajamas. She dragged her feet, her slippers making a sweeping noise with every step. She stopped at the door and looked up at them...they were undone...did May get up in the middle of the night and forget to redo them. Her narrow half-closed eyes examined the room slowly sweeping across it. May was gone. She didn't even see a note from her. She yawned as she grabbed on the doorknob, twisted, and pulled the door open.

Shi came tumbling in and in one swift movement wrapped his arms around Melody's body and grasped her butt. "So soft," muttered Shi. Melody lifted her hand up and quickly brought it back down and into Shi's head, knocking him loose. "Oh, come on! Is that anyway to treat your partner? I went an entire night without seeing you, you know! The least you could do is let me get a quick feel!"

"I hope for your sake that you didn't wake me up at 1 in the morning to get a quick feel, cause if you did...you are in a for a loooonnnnngggggg beating." Melody clenched her fists together as she looked downwards at her poor excuse for a partner. Shi looked up at her and began to rub his head where she hit him, "where's May and everybody else at?" asked Melody as she took another quick look into her room and saw nothing. "Did they go downstairs or something?"

Shi shook his head, "no! Apparently May went back to her house to grab something, but she never came back. We went after her, the other guys didn't really want to but I talked them into it, after all she is my friend!" Melody looked at Shi with contempt, she believed that Shi would want to go out after May but for a much more selfish and perverted reason than friendship. "Well, anyways on our way there we were attacked by a Kishin! He launched an attack, I had to come back and get you since the only team we actually had was Ash and Xander!"

"Okay, okay!" shouted Melody as she pushed Shi out of the room, "I'm gonna change and come back out. We'll go out in a couple of minutes so just get ready until then!" Melody quickly slammed the door closed, ignoring whatever it was that Shi was about to say. She quickly pulled her nightgown off and went back to getting ready, dressing in her favorite clothing. She emerged moments later, grabbing Shi and charging off. "We don't have a moment to waste, so guide me there!" Melody commanded. Shi nodded, his entire body morphing into a thin string and fitting into Melody's hand. The string reaching out and acting like a homing device, stretching out and pointing in the direction they were meant to go.

Melody raced off, following the string. She was starting to worry, the fact remained that the entire group was gone and were under attack. That premise probably stretched out to include the entire school. She needed to get to Ash and Xander as quickly as possible together their chances of surviving probably would double or more. However, she also couldn't stop thinking about May...

(-with May-)

May slowly came to in the dark holding cell. She looked around her and felt a slight twinge of panic as she looked around. There was a small man next to her. She crept forward through the cell and tapped him on the shoulder. The man huffed and turned around. May let out a shriek as she saw his face. He was wearing a mask over his eyes, but his teeth were large and sticking out over his top lip. The man sighed and turned back around and faced the wall in front of him, "do you mind? Its late and I'm trying to sleep...I really wasn't planning to get any stupid prisoners this early in the war. But now I got two! Talk about bad luck."

May backed away and into the corner of the cell. The words began to sink into her head. She was kidnapped by the Kishins and being held hostage. She cursed herself quietly for leaving the house. But the siren hadn't sounded and it wasn't like they were anywhere close to the outside of the city. The siren should've sounded and then ten minutes later the Kishins should've gotten to her apartment. But the siren never sounded. The Kishins shouldn't have been anywhere close to her apartment...so how did she get captured? Was the siren not working like Lord Death had planned? Or was it not a Kishin that kidnapped her?

She looked over at the small Kishin in front of her. She didn't really believe that he could've carried her here. He wasn't even four feet tall and he seemed to be painfully bored watching her. More then likely he was just the Kishin that got stuck watching over the prisoners rather than being on the battle field. He was falling asleep when he was supposed to be watching her. She moved forward and checked out his belt, he didn't have a single key on him, not like it would make a difference. If she broke out by herself she didn't believe that she would be able to get all the way out and back to the school without being re-captured by the Kishins...or worse.

May sighed as she backed up against the corner and slumped down. She had to just wait for Michael and the rest of them...if they noticed she was missing. She assumed that Melody would notice right away, but whether or not she would wake up in time was the real problem. Who else would notice it? Nobody else was in the room.

As May was off in her own world focusing on other facts, there was the sound of heavy footsteps as a Kishin neared the jail cell. The Kishin was tall, over 9 feet tall, and had to duck under the doorways and even hunch-down in the hallway as he neared May's cell. He smiled as he grasped the cell's bars and looked in on May. "Hello, young lady. I hope these accommodations aren't too mean. I hope you won't take it out on us, we just moved here and our funds are stretched a bit tight as is. Kishins don't make much money."

May stayed in the corner of the room as she stared over at the Kishin. "Are you the one who captured me?" asked May as she slunk down father into the corner. The Kishin cleared his throat and looked to the side.

He bent down and tapped the smaller Kishin on the shoulder, "I'm going to relieve you of your duty for awhile." The smaller Kishin nodded and ran out of there as quickly as he could. The large Kishin sat down on the outside of the cell. "I'm not very good at not standing out due to my size, so I didn't dare to enter the school grounds...not until our first soldiers breach the walls. I highly doubt I will leave after all I'm Vigrid's right hand man."

"You do know you Kishins have no chance of winning, right?" stated May as she stood up and approached the bars, "we got Lord Death and three Death Scythes! There is no way a bunch of you stupid Kishins could attack us and win!" May crossed her arm and huffed out her victory with a proud smile.

"Three Death Scythes?" muttered the Kishin, "oh, right...Three Death Scythes!" He seemed to be playing...a slight hint of sarcasm and something else on his tongue. "After all, if one of them were to be captured or even just delayed on his journey here due to some of our troops. The result would be catastrophic, no?" He stood up and began pacing in front of the cell, his eyes never leaving May. "I mean it would be a big problem. It would completely disrupt all of your plans and Lord Death would have to start all over from scrap..."

"You're kidding?" said May as she rushed to the bars, grabbing hold of them and leaning her head forward and through the wide bars. "How did you do it? I mean, how did you know about him coming down and helping us out?" May looked over at the Kishin, who was still walking around in front of the cell.

"We have our methods..." he stated plainly. "You meisters and weapons aren't the only ones who can think of plans. Vigird is a genius, he's battled side-by-side with Lord Death several times and then he watched the battle between Marburg and Lord Death when they fought. He has put together a series of anti-Lord Death tactics from these fights. Together with me and his other advisers we have managed to create several other rather unexpected techniques together that Lord Death won't be able to see coming. This fight will go to us...without any trouble."

"What makes you so sure?" said May as she moved back into the cell and sat down. What they were saying didn't quite fit right. Lord Death and his attacker fought together back in the day? Why would he be attacking Lord Death if they were allies? And why now? Did it have something to do with Marburg? There must have been some pieces missing from what she knew. For now the only beneficial thing for her to do would be to bluff and help protect Lord Death and the school, "even if Vigrid did create several anti-Lord Death tactics, Lord Death also has advisers we would still have several of our own tricks that Vigrid wouldn't have seen!"

"This is war, honey," mumbled the Kishin as he leaned forward and poked his head through the bars of the cell. "There is no man in the world, Kishin, Shinigami, or otherwise that knows war better than Vigrid. Vigrid lives, breathes, and eat war! He's a genius in wartime! Tactical prowess, strength, and all the like! We've won the instant he decided to join sides with us. I mean, we've already basically won! Nobody is going to deliver rations to the school during the war. You guys are stuck with the rations you obtained before we started our attack. And with an entire student body to feed, you will slowly run out of rations and only person strong enough to take the attack to us and Vigrid is Lord Death himself, but he can't leave school grounds. Anybody else leaves that school, Vigrid'll slaughter them. This is a war of attrition now."

May backed up further as she took in what he had just said. Its true. All delivery trucks were told to avoid the school until further notice, there was a large amount of students and teachers that needed food. The only question would be whether or not the teachers and the Death Scythes could pave a path for food to come in. In other words it would all depend on whether or not Vigrid was really that strong.

The Kishin smiled and stood up. He turned his back to her, "I'll let you think about what I just told you and mull it over for a bit. Just think about it, soon enough you will be the only Weapon or Meister alive and its all because you were captured by us...you certainly are a lucky little girl."

...I am really bad with remembering the whole disclaimer thing...so I officially apologize to DOK93. He is the one and only creator of the character, Elena Foxx, and I forgot to give him credit for her. I have went back and edited the last chapter to include this disclaimer. But I am still very sorry for forgetting about it.

Other than that I hope you guys are starting to put together how truly deep crap the school is in. Limited supplies, one of their Death Scythes missing, along with the fact that the Kishins have already taken a prisoner!