A/N: Hey Ya'll it's Sushicat! Sorry for the long wait, but I promise it is worth the wait! This is the longest chapter I have written to date with almost 3000 words! Also over 500 hits! You guys are seriously the best and spoil me and Kiki so much! Thanks to Kiki for writing one of the fight scenes this chapter, gotta love having a black belt coauthor! Also welcome Tsu, our awesome beta reader, who likes to hijack Kiki's author notes apparently...anyways I do have to include a couple of warnings in this chapter cuz swearing, death, and suicidal children who need hugs! Great now that that's out of the way Kiki and I have some exciting news for ya'll! Next chapter instead of an updated death roster we will be answering some QnA with the characters. The characters that will be accepting questions are Nagisa, Rachel, Zack, Danny, Myself, Tsu (New beta reader) and Kiki. Just leave your questions in the comments and we'll try to answer as many as we can.
A/N 2: Hey this is Kiki! I am proud to say 10 years of karate has finally been put to good use writing a short 'fight scene'
Me too ~Tsu
The AN was hijacked by my friend who sits next to me in English but it IS FINE because I am the best :* ~Tsu
Now that I can type please comment your questions and enjoy the chapter
"You know Rachel, it's funny I somehow knew you make your way to me " Danny stated as he and Rachel walked down the hallways of the hospital.
"So you were waiting for me?" Rachel asked. Danny stopped walking and turned to look at Rachel. "How did you know I-"
"In any case, we need to determine how to reach the next floor," Danny stated with an almost eerie smile.
"What about Nagisa? We left him all by himself, I'm worried." Rachel stated, fidgeting with her hands.
"She'll be fine. She seems like a smart girl just like you Rachel." The two came to a glass wall which blocked the two from the rest of the hallway.
"It looks too thick to break through." Danny turned towards Rachel.
"So how will we-"
"Oh well, It looks like the two of us are trapped in here together." Danny cut Rachel off, he sounded a bit too excited about the situation.
"But what about-"
"But you're a smart girl, we'll figure something out." Rachel backed away from the glass wall, fear in her eyes. "Sorry if I scared you, but there isn't any reason to be afraid. Maybe if we take this slow and see how this all plays out then something might just happen that will be good for both me and you." Rachel nodded. "Let's see what's in this room."
They headed to a room that had multiple hospital beds. "Looks like a patient's room. Don't be scared Rachel. It's just a bunch of beds." Danny stated. Rachel nodded blandly. At the back of the room, Rachel noticed some more writing on the wall. "Do you know what your heart wishes for? Is it desire? If that is your impulse then there's no point to resist. For being here you possess no such essence. However, every wish has its price. Just don't break the rules." Rachel read aloud. "I'm confused." She looked back to Dr. Danny.
"It must be talking about the rules of this building," Danny answered back.
"And desire that's weird too…" Rachel continued on.
"They're probably saying you should ask yourself what you want most. For instance, what I desire is to have perfect eyes. You see one of mine doesn't work so well…" Rachel looked at him with a scared expression. "If only I had pretty ones like yours, how wonderful life would be." Danny closed his eyes and let out a small moan. Rachel took a fearful step back, something wasn't right and where was Nagisa, was he okay. Rachel looked down the wall and saw more writing that was slightly dusty.
"There's more writing…" Rachel moved her hand to brush off the dust but Danny caught it forcefully. Rachel let out a small gasp and looked up at him.
"Please don't do that. The wall's terribly dusty." Danny stated very seriously. "Better take good care of those peepers. A single speck of dust could ruin them." Danny's smiling was unsettling. "Come on. Let's go look in a different room." Danny's voice had a slight edge to it as he practically dragged Rachel out of that room and into the next one.
"Where are we?" Rachel asked fearfully. The room was decorated to look like an operating room with a large operating table in the middle and a large light overhead.
"We're in an operating room, naturally. Now then dear, let me get a good look at those eyes." Danny's hands started to close over Rachel's eyes and she ran away putting some distance between them, standing right in front of the operating table. Her eyes were full of fear and she was shaking. "My, what exquisite oculi! Just like my mothers! But alas! When I see that terrified expression they look so ordinary! You're breaking my heart! I want to gaze into them in their purest form!" Danny started taking steps towards Rachel, causing the girl to start shaking even more. "Maybe if I could wake from this nightmare…" Rachel was whimpering now. "I'll get to enjoy that beautiful silence much like that of the soft blue moon above us reflected in your eyes once again. Oh, Rachel!" Danny put his hands and Rachel's face cupping it slightly. "Sweet girl, I want to spend my whole life gazing at those eyes."
"But..." Rachel finally found some courage to speak. "I…" Danny smiled at her.
"I just remembered a while ago, I misplaced something very important to me. So would you be a good girl and help me look for it."
"Something important?" Rachel asked her fear slightly calming down.
" I can examine this room myself, Meanwhile you can search the back room for me okay?" Danny released his hands from Rachel's face. "Go on. You're a smart girl so I bet you can figure it what it is I'm after. Put those gorgeous little peepers to work and take a good look at me. Think back is there something different about my face? I'll even give you a hint, you see Rachel my eye is alexandrite." Danny stood straight up. "That back room is quite dark, so be careful, don't strain your eyes."
Rachel opened the door to the back room which seemed to be some sort of storage room. It also had giant containers that Rachel could barely make out in the back corner. "What is this place? Is what you're looking for around here doctor?" Rachel asked herself. Rachel walked towards the back of the room and gasped. "These are eyes…" Rachel noted looking in the now more clear containers. She walked over to a large filing cabinet which had four drawers, three of which were labeled. She opened one of the drawers to see many glass red eyes. She grabbed one and decided to go back to Dr. Danny. He was waiting by a countertop.
"Here…" Rachel said blandly, her fear having been long forgotten.
"Rachel...What a lovely red glass eye. I fancy this color. Is that why you chose this color? Were you thinking of me? Still, you were close, close but no cigar. I'll keep it though okay?" Rachel nodded and headed back to the filing cabinet in the back room. This time she opened a drawer labeled blue and grabbed a blue glass eye before heading back.
"Here…" Rachel stated yet again.
"Rachel! Is this for me? You know I adore blue eyes much like yours. I don't need a blue one though, to your peepers this one pales in comparison. For blue peepers all I need is you." Rachel headed back into the back room opening the third drawer and pulling out a green glass eye before heading back.
"Here…" Rachel tried for the third time.
"Green...I see. Did you pick this out for me? Rachel could I have slipped into your subconscious? But you are getting warmer. Point your beautiful gaze at me! It's just me Dr. Danny." Danny paused for a moment thinking before he looked at Rachel smiling. "Oh! Rachel! I was so careless! My glass eye is in a place that is locked and the key was in my pocket all along!" Danny dug in his pocket for a moment before pulling out a golden key and giving it to Rachel. "Here...If it's alright with you I would like you to be the one to find my eye. Won't you do that for me, Rachel?" Rachel nodded slowly and left to the back room for hopefully the final time. She went to the locked drawer and opened it with the key.
"This glass eye has two eyeballs jammed inside it…" Dr. Danny came into the room.
"Poor thing...you still don't remember do you? Come on think about the first time you met me inside the hospital." Danny stated walking towards Rachel.
"I'm sorry...I don't think that happened." Rachel backed into one of the cabinets with eyes, she was trapped.
"How about that I'm so happy! You found it!" Danny shouted with a smile.
"This fake eye...so it belongs to you?" Rachel asked holding the glass eye to her chest.
"That's correct! Doesn't jog your memory at all?" Danny and Rachel looked at each other for a few seconds before Danny spoke again. "I understand...everything is still a little hazy. Could you please give me that? Hurry! We'll both be happy if you do! HAND IT OVER!" Danny yelled at Rachel.
"Um...Okay" She held out the eye to the doctor who happily took it from her.
"That a girl, I think I'll go ahead and pop it in now. Why don't you go into the other room and wait for me okay?" Danny's expression got darker. "If you run you'll be really sorry…" With that being said he shoved Rachel back into the main room and shut the door.
"Something's wrong there is no way he is my counselor. I'm scared...I have to go." Rachel said quietly to herself. She ran over to the door and tried to pull it open but it was locked. She noticed a crowbar on the ground and grabbed it before trying to shove the door open. Finally, the door popped open with a loud noise.
"It opened…" Rachel said quietly. She suddenly felt a presence behind her and dropped the crowbar on the ground shaking in fear. "You silly little girl." Danny's voice was dark and stern. "I specifically said NOT to run away." Danny crouched down to Rachel's level and gripped her shoulders. "This is my floor, so we play by my rules here. If you wander on to someone else's floor then I won't be able to do anything to you myself! It was my desire for you and those perfect peepers to live here with me forever Rachel. Sadly, though I have no choice!" Danny stood back up and threw his arms out. "When their all full of fear your eyes don't look special anymore!" He held out a hand to Rachel, his tongue sticking out of his mouth unnaturally. "But hey, it's okay…" Rachel was able to see his eyes more clearly now, he had put in the glass eye with two eyeballs making him look even more terrifying. "I can just remove them from your skull!" Rachel threw open the door and tried to run but Danny caught her arm.
"LET GO OF ME!" Rachel screamed and tried struggling against Danny with all her might. Danny threw her onto the operation table and pinned her down under him.
"Doctor! Please don't do this to me!" Rachel's voice was cracking.
"I'm just as upset as you are! Rachel, you've forgotten me! And as if that's not bad enough you've forgotten yourself too! Listen at the very least don't you remember why all of this is happening to you! Be a good girl and show me those incredible blue eyes again! You could live here with me!" Danny shouted at the girl, his grip on her wrists tightening.
"Please stop. I don't want to." Rachel pleaded, her eyes pulsing in fear. "RACHEL!" A familiar voice shouted out.
"Nagisa?" Rachel whispered quietly. Danny looked disgusted.
"How dare you! I'll kill you for interrupting my special time with Rachel!" Nagisa's eyes darkened.
"Let go of her." Danny stood up and held Rachel against him, giving Nagisa a sickening smile.
"I'll never let you have Rachel! I need her beautiful peepers!" Rachel was frozen in fear, as Nagisa quickly grabbed a random syringe from the countertop and charged at Danny. Danny threw Rachel to the side and grabbed Nagisa's wrist twisting it slightly so the syringe fell and shattered on the floor. "No this won't do at all, your eyes are so dark and filled with bloodlust. You'll taint Rachel's beautiful peepers and I won't allow that." Nagisa broke out of his grip and swung his leg making direct contact with Danny's stomach sending him back a bit.
"I won't let anyone else die." Danny threw his head back and laughed.
"Don't you get it? Me and Rachel are destined for each other and I won't allow some stupid crossdresser to get in the way!" Nagisa charged at Danny once again, but Danny caught Nagisa by the arm and threw him into the backroom before shutting and locking the door. That snapped Nagisa back into reality and he started banging on the door. Danny turned back towards Rachel, who was frozen in fear.
"Don't worry Rachel I'll take care of that brat right after you okay? But right now is special for you and your pretty little eyes." He grabbed Rachel and threw her back onto the operation table putting back in the position they were in before they were interrupted.
"I'll give you one more chance Rachel. Now show me those amazing peepers I love so much!" Rachel trembled.
"Please stop it."
"Still saying no...no matter how much you refuse me I'll always be madly in love with your eyes. They're far lovelier than any other pair in the world." Danny had calmed down slightly and Nagisa had given up banging on the door.
"Please...let me go. All I want to do is see my mom and dad again." Rachel stated fearfully. Danny smiled.
"Oh, is that all? Don't worry you'll see them very soon." Rachel's eyes widened slightly. "I'll be happy to reunite you with your parents. Why they have been waiting for you in Hell!" Rachel froze and her pupils shrunk in size.
"You mean they…" Rachel's eyes became dull and lifeless and all her fear was replaced with a blank emptiness.
"Now I'll be collecting those peepers." Danny paused for a moment. "What's this?" Danny let go of Rachel's wrists and laughed. "Beautiful! That's more like it! Your eyes are BEWITCHING NOW THEN EVER! PLEASE! PLEASE STAY WITH ME RACHEL! I'VE BEEN SO UNBEARABLY LONELY-" Danny reached back in an unnatural manner and was met with a scythe to the stomach. Danny coughed spitting out blood before seeing the brown jacket of a certain killer. "It's...you," Danny said in a gargled up voice. The scythe came out, Danny fell to the floor, The back room door opened and Psychotic laughter broke out.
"Rachel, get back!" Nagisa said but the girl didn't move. The killer stepped on Danny's corpse. "Bad News Danny! Your voice sounded way to fucking happy! How was I supposed to resist cutting you up?" The killer's gaze turned towards Nagisa who had made his way to Rachel's side and grabbed her arm. "Hey, remember me kiddo? I bet if you knew this creep was up here you would have kept your ass downstairs. Huh who's your friend? Guess it doesn't matter anyway if you wanna live you better start running." Rachel didn't move and Nagisa realized he wasn't scared of this guy anymore. The killer put his scythe up to Rachel's neck, she didn't even flinch. "Huh...Boring! What kind of face is that! Do you even give a damn that I'm about to rip your guts out? Look you little weirdo, I'm a grown ass man you understand? I'm not the type of guy who gets his jollies out of cutting up dolls." While the killer was distracted with rambling at Rachel, Nagisa took his chance to get the scythe away from him. He simultaneously stepped between Rachel and the killer, hit the scythe away with his left forearm palm facing away from him, and grabbed the attacker's wrist with his right hand and pulled towards himself, knocking his opponent off balance. As the killer was falling forward he wrenched the scythe out of his hand and pointed it back at its owner. Suddenly the ringing of a bell could be heard and the loudspeaker came on. "A floor B7 resident has attacked a resident of floor B5 since this violates the rules the traitor is now a sacrifice." The loudspeaker cut off. Nagisa dropped the scythe in surprise.
"Huh? Is this some kind of joke? Guess I should make tracks…" The killer picked up his scythe and left the room and the faint sound of glass being broken could be heard. Nagisa let out a sigh and turned towards Rachel. "Hey, are you okay? I thought for sure we were goners." Rachel sat up from the operation table.
"I shouldn't be alive…" She said quietly under her breath. She stood up and started walking out of the room. "Ah wait, it's not really safe out there. We should really come up with a plan first." Nagisa said but the girl ignored him and continued walking. Nagisa sighed before following her out. Strings of cursing could be heard from the hallway and the killer was banging his foot against the elevator door. "SHIT! COME ON! WHY WON'T IT OPEN!" The killer calmed down a bit. "Now what do I do?" Rachel walked up to him, while Nagisa readied himself to fight the killer again.
"Rachel, what are you doing," Nagisa asked under his breath. The killer turned around towards Rachel and Nagisa.
"Hey, you guys are ballsy! Don't you see the fucking scythe in my hands?" The killer asked with an annoyed expression.
"Actually...Can I ask you a favor…" Rachel started, her voice was quiet.
"What?" The killer's annoyance was growing. Rachel put her hands together in a pleading motion.
"Well, sir...If you would….Kill me...please."
For those of you who like death here's your death roster for 3E. Feel free to guess how your favorites died!
Nagisa Shiota: ALIVE
Karma Akabane: ?
Kaede Kayano: ?
Rio Nakamura: ?
Itona Horibe: DEAD Danny's Floor
Yuma Isogai: ?
Taiga Okajima: DEAD Zack's Floor
Hinata Okano: ?
Manami Okuda: ?
Megu Kataoka: ?
Yukiko Kanzaki: ?
Masayoshi Kimura: ?
Hinano Kurahashi: ?
Sōsuke Sugaya: DEAD Zack's Floor
Tomohito Sugino: ?
Kōtarō Takebayashi: DEAD Zack's Floor
Ryūnosuke Chiba: ?
Ryōma Terasaka: DEAD Zack's Floor
Kirara Hazama: ?
Rinka Hayami: ?
Sumire Hara: ?
Yuzuki Fuwa: ?
Hiroto Maehara: ?
Kōki Mimura: ?
Takuya Muramatsu: ?
Tōka Yada: ?
Taisei Yoshida: ?
Ritsu: ?