I had this written since august. Band camp was the second to last week of August, so.............. my dad is a lazy bum. Yeah.

Woot! I'm updating! I'm in Marching Band and I'm DAMN PROUD OF IT! Yeah. Next chapter. I'm watching that special on Nefertiti on the Discovery Channel. My eyes burn 'cause Sunscreen got in my eyes. Onto the next part. I would like to thank Mello-Skello and Invader Dinzey for reviewing. ARIGATOU! And, sorry Dinzey, they did all die, even Tak, they just weren't killed by Herb personally. He had minions kill them, and they burned the less than major characters' (unfortunately for Tak, she JUUUST fell short of major) bodies. Sorry! The entire Irken race is dead, (But I'll fix that soon enough ^. ~)

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Black Silver.

7/19/03

" You can call me Kasai. It isn't my real name, but it is what......... those who know me call me. What would you say if I told you that the fire you just walked through, unscathed, was real?"

Disbelief, improbability, incredulity and scepticism ran through her mind. It couldn't be true; there was no way that it could be possible... ... ... " I would say that you are severely mistaken. You yourself told me that it was fake." She kept coming up with reasons upon reasons for why the fire couldn't have been real, and Kasai just looked on, pleasantly, as if she were talking about the weather in Germany. Not really caring, yet keeping a pleasant expression. When she had finished speaking, Kasai let out a quiet, contented sigh, reminding Black Silver of a flame flickering out. She stood up.

"Very good. Now, lets get to work." Black Silver just stared at her.

"... ... ... Huh? Work? At what? And what am I doing here? I forgot to ask earlier........." Kasai hadn't said anything at all about why she was here, and what she was doing here.

" You are here to train-" Black Silver interrupted again, she didn't see Kasai flinch in irritation.

"Why would I train? Where are we?" Again, Kasai flinched, forgetful of how noisy students could be.

"Your body is in a hospital, we are in a training hall. You will be trained in-" Black Silver again butted in, she learned quickly not to do this.

" What do you mean? I'm either in one place or another, I can sort of understand this being a training hall but what was that bit about a hospiAACK!"

Kasai took a spiked Halberd from her throne. The halberd had three prongs on it, the first two, at the top, encased a large ruby the size of a fist inside. The third prong was at the end of the halberd. As Black Silver talked, she drove the halberd straight through her heart. Black Silver felt the cold, cold metal push through her body, blood spurting out of her chest and back onto the floor. As she choked on her own blood, she spoke to Kasai.

" Bitch......... what did I do to you.........?" Kasai got a distant look in her eyes. She dragged her halberd out of Black Silver's body, about faced, and walked to the small annex at the end of the room. Halfway there, she stopped. In a dreamy, half awake voice she called back.

" What are you still doing on the floor? Get up. Its not like you're actually hurt." Black Silver stared after her, and then looked to her chest. There was absolutely nothing. No hole in the fabric, no blood pouring out, no blood on the ground, there wasn't even a wound to speak of. Black Silver could no longer taste the blood in her mouth that she had tasted before. Thinking back, she looked at her hand, the one that had burned in the fire. Again, there was nothing. She rose, and followed Kasai into the annex.

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Black Silver's parents rushed to the room that they had heard something fall in. Their daughter had told them to leave her alone. She said she needed some time to cope with the loss of her favourite show. They came across their daughter's body, leaning at a strange angle against the sofa in the room. Her father immediately called an ambulance, while her mother examined her daughter. She noticed something... ... ... odd. Her daughter had, against her mother's wishes, dyed the tips of her hair aqua-blue. There was no off colouring at all. Although... ... ... premature silver strands of hair, developed from great stress, were more prominent than they had ever been when she had the blue. Now all she saw was a sallow skinned girl with premature grey hair. Not the strong willed daughter she knew, what she could see, was the girl under the strong front. A girl that was so delicate that she could crumble at the slightest touch.

The ambulance took about an hour to get there. The driver expressed his deepest regret at their delay, but they had gotten about thirty calls that all compressed into relatively the same time. As they loaded the girl's stretcher into the ambulance, the EMS workers mentioned that a lot of the people he had loaded into the ambulance that day seemed to be the same age. There was a great deal of difference, he said, but he doubted that from between the age of seven and thirty there was a year that was skipped.

It was nearly impossible to get a room in the hospital. Nearly an entire wing of the hospital had been taken up in just that day, in just that hour. Wandering around the hallways, Black Silver's parents found hundreds of others that had shockingly similar stories, that their son or daughter had been watching their favourite show, Invader Zim, and, when it ended, had collapsed and hadn't woken up.

Coincidence? No way in Hell.

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"Ok. Now, you call yourself Black Silver, ne?" Kasai stood distanced five feet from Black Silver, rummaging through a pile of metal things. Black Silver recognized some of them as swords, chains, hooks, bows, and various other weapons.

"Y-yeah. Black Silver." She warily watched Kasai, wondering if she were going to stab her again.

"But your real name is Lili, ne?" She pulled out two metal staffs and was swinging them around, as if she were testing them.

" Uh... ... ...yeah... ... ... how'd you know that?"

"I probed your mind while you were sleeping. Didn't take too long. Catch." Kasai threw one of the staffs to Black Silver. She caught it one handed, and promptly fell over. While Kasai laughed her ass off, Black Silver pulled the thing up and righted herself. When she had finished laughing, Kasai spoke again. "I'm going to be calling you something different, if you mind, tough shit."

"Well, oh mighty one, what might that new name be?" Black Silver felt like being a bitch. She normally was one anyway. In response to the attitude, Kasai reached behind her back and pulled out a few spiky metal things, shuriken, and threw them. Each one hit their mark. An arm, a leg, as she was still throwing, she responded to the question.

"Your *throw* name is *throw* going *throw, throw* to be * throw, throw, throw* Kuroyuri *throw*." As she threw the last one, it hit with a 'thchnk' sound into the middle of her forehead.

"Ow.... ... ... that hurt. Kuroyuri? Black... ... ... something.... Its not silver. I know that. " She pulled out the shuriken from her head.

"Black Lily. Go to the pile over there and pick out a weapon. That will be the first weapon I'll teach you. Try not to hurt yourself. " She walked away, mumbling something about Nunchakus.

Black Silver confusedly walked to where Kasai had gestured. One weapon especially caught her eye. She recognized it from a video game she played often. They looked like hooks, nearly the length of Black Silver's arm. At the handle, a crescent moon shape covered one side, most likely to protect the hands. They were a pair. As the weapons were the only ones that 'called' to her at the moment, she picked both of them up. The other weapons disappeared. Kasai shortly returned with clothes and some sheets. "So, you chose the hookswords? Nice... ... ... those were the second ones I learned. The first was the Katana. Hookswords are pretty easy. The first thing you have to learn is the starting stance. Whatever move you do, you have to always return to the starting stance." Kasai showed her how to hold the swords, and showed her some basic moves. By the time they were done, Black Silver was exhausted, and ready for a rest. "You tired? We can stop for today. There's a hot spring outside, if you want to freshen up. Just walk behind the gozasho, the big chair.........thingy. There's a small screen that you slide over to get outside. Here, I got you these. They should fit you." Kasai handed her a small pile of clothes. She had a set of what looked like to be night clothes, a karate uniform, and a set of thin blankets.

She followed Kasai's directions, and found herself in a beautiful garden. Stone steps lead to, as Kasai said, a hot spring. As she walked to it, she noticed lighted orbs lighting her way. They cast a blue hue over everything. Large versions of what seemed to be bonsai trees dappled the landscape. Black Silver also saw a Zen sand garden to the left of the path. She stood at the spring and looked around. Above her, the sky was deep blue, and the moon above her head was a silvery-blue. She could not remember a time when she felt so lost, so confused, and so alone. Except maybe that one time in math class.















well, it is longer than the other chapter. *sigh* This is taking longer than I thought. My eyes are still burning. Ow. Ja ne, minna-sans! R&R! It makes me go faster!