Chapter six; Laughter and death
The sky grew dark and cold, though it was still the afternoon it looked like night, and though summer, it felt like the dead of winter. The laughter echoed all around them and it was soon accompanied by the screams of the villagers.
"What's going on?" Colt cried out, shivering from both cold and fear.
"Senki who's Rion?" Pixie demanded.
"I...I don't know...he..." Senki eyes glazed over slightly. "He's the boy in white."
"The boy in white?" Alan repeated.
The older twin shook his head dizzily, his eyes returning to normal. "H..how did I know that?"
"What?" Suzo gave him a confused look.
"The thought just came into my head." Senki explained. "Sometimes I can pick up what Genki's thinking or feeling....but how would he know that? Never mind. I need to find him. It was nice meeting you."
"Hold on!" Tiger called him back. "It would not be wise to be by yourself."
"Tiger's right." Holly agreed. "We'll split up into teams to both look for Genki and help villagers escape from hear."
"Right." Alan turned to the monsters. "Golem, Suzo you both stay near the village exit and help guide people out of the village. Mocchi, Tiger, Hare you go and search the east side. Pixie, Colt you both search south side and Holly, Senki and I will search the north."
"Right!"
Senki felt confused, everything was happening so fast around him but he fallowed Alan and Holly anyway, hoping only that by doing so he would find his brother in time.
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"Reid..." Genki murmured as he staggered down the streets feeling dizzy, the world around him was spinning. The world around him was completely out of focus. He wondered dizzily through the streets, not knowing why or where he was going. In fact he was barely even aware that he was walking, his mind seemed cluttered with the thoughts of someone else. The darkness around him was thick, and the only light strong enough to cut through it was the light of the stone that Deyarteb had embedded into his chest. The corrupted light acted like a beacon guiding him forward and he fallowed it not really knowing why.
"Reid, you traitor...why did you do it? Why....?" He heard the whispers being spoken by his lips but he did not know the meaning of them. He felt a deep sadness in his heart and he could feel tears coming down his cheeks as he weakly stumbling towards where the light was pulling him. "Why....? Reid...I..."
He stopped walking, standing still for a moment, the world was spinning all around him, but within the confusion he felt a sudden anger, a deep betrayal, a deep, undying hate.
"Why...!?"
He did not know if he said it or just heard it, but the question was demanded with such force, such everlasting contempt and betrayal that it pierced the very heavens themselves. Genki fell onto his two knees, the area around him was starting to become darker and fade. He collapsed onto the dirt with a soft moan.
"Sen-chan...where are you...?"
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"I–I think we've helped all the people we can.." Colt trembled as they walked down one of the southern roads of the village they had helped a few villagers back to Golem and Hare, but they also had found many who had been already slaughtered. They were falling down around them like flies, but they did not see anyone near by who could be doing it. Who could kill this quickly and this brutally? Some of these people...they were ripped to pieces, others look partly ate up. Pixie looked away from the bodies in disgust.
"It is disgusting, but we haven't looked every where yet."
"Aw, come on!" Colt whimpered tearfully. "I don't want to wander around here, what if we run into the killer?"
"Then we kick his ass."
"Be serious! We can't beat someone who could do this." Colt gestured towards the mutilated bodies. "Especially not without the others!"
"Colt, shut up."
"Hey–!"
"Shut up!" Pixie repeated harshly. "Listen..." The two women paused, listening to a soft noise that was coming some distance away from them. It was the voice of a young boy, being carried on the wind. It sounded as though he was crying...
"A survivor?" Colt asked.
"Could be." Pixie fallowed the noise with Colt scampering behind her, the fallowed it until they arrived at a row of houses. There was a figure standing in front of them, crying into his hands. He had dark black hair, pale skin, white clothes...
"I'm sorry....I'm so sorry Rion...." The figure was whimpering, and did not even seem to notice them.
"Hey—"Pixie began approaching him. "You better get out of here."
The monster's eyes widened as her hand passed right through the shoulder of the boy as she went touch him. He vanished as though he had never been there. "What the—?"
"AH! P–P–PIXIE!!!" Colt screamed, making the monster turn around to see what her partner was screaming about.
"What is it?"
"A–AH....."
Pixie fallowed the girls gaze to see a the boy from earlier walking towards them, his head lowered so his dark hair fell across his face, and his white clothing was covered in blood. He walked slowly and stiffly, his limbs jerking (Think of the girl from the ring) Pixie prepared herself for attack, pushing Colt, whom was particularly useless when it came to fighting behind her.
"Get out of here."
"But..."
"I can take care of this freak. He doesn't look so though, go and get the others."
"O...Ok...." Colt backed up towards the houses, waiting for her chance to be able to safely run past the boy. Pixie smirked at the bloody child tried to hide the fact that she was both disgusted and freaked out by him.
"Well, I hope that you have a mommy you little hell spawn, because you'll need someone to go crying home to when I open a can of whoop ass on you."
The boy did not stop in his movement towards her, or showed even the slightest reaction to her words. Pixie's smirk widened. "Ok then, you asked for it. LIGHTENING!!"
It hit the boy dead on, but he did not even so much as flinch. Pixie stared at him shocked not believing that her attack had no effect before she re- composed herself and began to ready her big bang attack. Colt backed up knowing what she was going to do, and covered her face to protect herself from the dust as Pixie fired her strongest attack at the boy. The girl looked back towards Pixie as the dust and the light of the attack faded, expecting to see the monster grinning in victory and that blood covered boy dead, what she saw was the opposite of what she had been expecting. Pixie was backing up half in shock, half in fear as the boy continued to come towards her without even the slightest wound.
"Th–this is unreal!" She cried out as she backed up into a house, Colt backed away from Pixie as the boy continued to come closer. She wanted to run down the road that was no longer being blocked but she couldn't just leave her friend, could she? As she stood there trying to decide if she should run away and get help or try to do something herself the boy came to a stop directly in front of Pixie, he stared at her for a long time, making Pixie's heart beat rapidly in her chest with a fear she had never known before. Several breath stopping moments passed before the boy reached out his hand and gently caressed the side of Pixie's face with his small, cold, bloody hands. She gasped as a vision flashed before her eyes.
FLASH
Twin boys were standing together before a giant monster an altar. They both had black hair and white clothes. They made a promise. The images changed to show the two boys in the same room, except one was laying on the altar. The image change again and all she could see was blood. A mirror in a golden plate smashed into five pieces, and there was a betrayed agonized scream. Lots of blood. One of the twins were laughing insanely, covered in blood.
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Pixie could feel herself laying on top of the altar that was in the vision, she could see the area as though it was real. It was too real to be a vision... Above her she heard laughter, insane laughter and saw the bloody twin, the boy in the village, the same boy in the vision, over her, his hands wrapped around her neck as he continued to howl with laughter.
"Die! Die! SUFFER!! EVERYBODY MUST KNOW MY SUFFERING!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"
She screamed as thousands of ghostly arms came out of the boys back and reached towards her, and then all she felt was pain.
Colt screamed, her eyes widening in pure terror, all her senses dulled when it came to this intense fear and all she knew was the haunting image before her eyes. She had saw the boy touch her friend, gently on the face and no more then a moment after the harmless looking caress Pixie was ripped apart by an unseen force, her blood splattering everywhere, including on Colt's face. The girl stared down in disbelief at the lost disk that now stood in Pixie's place and the blood that had splattered everywhere.
'But....but all he did was touch her.....'
Colt fell back with a cry as the bloody boy turned towards her and began to approach. She screamed, pulling herself back to her feet and tried to run away. But, though the boy was walking slowly to him she was just scampering.
"Somebody help me!! Help!" She cried out, stumbling, the laughter of the boy fallowed her. She ran out onto the street screaming taking terrified glances at the bloody boy behind her. Not looking at where she was going she tripped over one of the many slain and fell face first onto the blood drenched dirt. She whimpered, rolling onto her back seeing the bloody boy standing directly over her. No wait...it was not the bloody boy, it was the boy whom had been crying in front of the buildings. Still that did not stop her from screaming until her voice was horse. After all he looked just like the bloody boy except that she could see his face and he wasn't covered in blood. It could even be the same person for all she knew.
"The soul ritual."
The boy spoke it in a whisper before disappearing. Colt stared at the place where the boy vanished, her eye brows creasing in thought as her fear calmed down a little.
'The soul ritual? I recognise that phrase...but from where....?'
"Colt!"
"Colt chi!"
The girl turned towards the voices startled but relaxed as she saw Tiger, Hare and Mocchi running up to her. Had she ran all the way to the west side? Upon seeing them she began to cry, clinging onto Tiger for some sense of comfort.
"He killed her!"
"He killed her?" Hare repeated confused. "The boy..!" Colt sobbed. "He killed Pixie!"
The three monsters stared at the sobbing girl in shock.
"No chi! That can't be true chi!"
"But...Pixie was one of the strongest..." Hare whispered numbly is disbelief.
"Where is he!?" Tiger growled angrily. "I'll make him pay!"
"No..." Colt shook her head sniffling. "It's hopeless. All...all he...he did was...was touch her..."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that if he even lays one finger on you, your dead instantly!" Colt shouted at the lupine monster, before she started sobbing again. "That's why he can kill so many, so quickly....one touch and they are ripped to pieces...."
"H-how can we defeat something that we can't even touch?" Hare trembled.
"We have to warn the others chi!" Mocchi exclaimed.
"Right. Hare, Mocchi take Colt to Golem and Suzo. There is no use being hear if we can't even fight the enemy. I'll go find the others." Tiger ran towards the north side, hoping that he would catch up with Holly and the others before it was too late and they met the same fate as Pixie.
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Holly wiped a few tears away from her eyes as she walked past the heaps of dead bodies. No one had been spared, not even the very young or the very old.
"Holly." Alan whispered seeing her tears, and held her close. "Don't worry, we'll stop whoever is behind this, somehow."
"Alan...I know we will, but even if we do, their lives wont be restored."
"But we'll avenge them."
"We will..." Holly looked around herself and gasped. "Wait, where did Senki go!?"
Alan's eyes widened and he looked around for the boy whom had been silently tagging along behind them. He was not there anymore.
"Damn, where did he go!?"
"I was so sure he was right behind us..." Holly looked worried, before her eyes flashed with a surprised look as the stone began to glow around her neck. She stared down at it in wonderment, it was pointing out a direction on it.
This way.
She heard the voice and turned around to see two little twin girls standing behind her pointing down a small path in between two buildings.
"Who are you?" She asked them but they just vanished. "Wait!"
"Holly, who are you talking to?"
"There were two little girls standing there a few seconds ago. I think Senki went down there." Holly pointed towards the path that the two little girls had showed her.
"Ok, lets go then." Alan took her hand. "Stick close to me."
"I will." Holly held his hand back and fallowed him, stepping over the bodies and lost disks. Her hand clutched the magic stone, it felt so warm where everything else was so cold. 'Could Genki really be hear in this place....? If so, does he have anything to do with this...?'
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"Sen-chan! Sen-chan, come hear! Please come...."
Senki ran down the path hearing his brothers voice calling him. He knew he should of said something to the people he had been with but when he tried to, he felt a disgust in the back of his mind, telling him not to. He figured that the emotion had came from Genki, and so he obeyed his brother's wishes. He arrived outside a large shed, the door was slightly ajar and covered in bloody hand prints. He shuddered, trying to ignore the blood as he gripped the door, pulling it open. He stepped inside, seeing his brother standing in the middle of the room with a sad look in his eyes, he had blood stains on him and as he turned his head to look at him, Senki noticed tears in his brothers eyes.
"Genki."
"Senki, I'm glad your ok."
"Genki, what happened to you? Why are you hear?"
"I don't know. Something lured me hear. I...I saw him. A boy covered in blood, he killed so many...."
"Genki!" Senki ran over to him, giving him a big hug crying. "I was so worried about you. You promised you would not leave me, please, stop leaving me behind. Wait for me next time."
"I will."
Senki calmed his tears after a few moments. "Genki your friends are outside."
"What?"
"Your friends, they aren't dead. I saw them all, I'll take you to them if you want." Senki took his brother's hand to lead him out of the shed, but he felt his twin hold his steps as though he did not want to move. "What's wrong, Gen-chan?"
"I don't want to see them."
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"The sun..." Holly looked up at the sky as the darkness and cold left and it became sunny again. The bodies still remained, but everything else looked like how it had been before the massacre had happened.
"How odd." Alan looked around himself. "What do you think happened?"
"The magic stone does not feel that negative presence anymore."
"Holly, Alan!"
The two turned towards Tiger whom came running up to them.
"Pixie is dead..."
"What!?" Holly gasped in horror. "Wha....?"
"Colt says that a boy covered in blood touched her and she died instantly."
Holly turned her head away from them as tears snaked down her cheeks. "One touch?"
"Yes."
Alan put an arm around Holly to try and comfort her. "Tiger, Senki ran away from us. Can you sniff him out?"
"It'll be hard with all this blood, but I'll give it a try." Tiger sniffed the soil, the smell of blood was overpowering but he managed to pick up a slight trace of Senki's scent amongst it and he gestured with his head for Alan and Holly to fallow him.
"Will you be ok, Holly?"
"Yes, thanks Alan..." She fallowed Tiger and Alan miserably down the ally until they reached a blood covered shed door that was opened they stepped inside, causing two figures to turn around to look at them startled. Holly's eyes widened as she found herself staring at both Senki and Genki, despite her sorrow she smiled taking a few steps towards them.
"Genki, it's really you..."
Genki did not say anything, he just lowered his eyes towards the floor sadly.
The sky grew dark and cold, though it was still the afternoon it looked like night, and though summer, it felt like the dead of winter. The laughter echoed all around them and it was soon accompanied by the screams of the villagers.
"What's going on?" Colt cried out, shivering from both cold and fear.
"Senki who's Rion?" Pixie demanded.
"I...I don't know...he..." Senki eyes glazed over slightly. "He's the boy in white."
"The boy in white?" Alan repeated.
The older twin shook his head dizzily, his eyes returning to normal. "H..how did I know that?"
"What?" Suzo gave him a confused look.
"The thought just came into my head." Senki explained. "Sometimes I can pick up what Genki's thinking or feeling....but how would he know that? Never mind. I need to find him. It was nice meeting you."
"Hold on!" Tiger called him back. "It would not be wise to be by yourself."
"Tiger's right." Holly agreed. "We'll split up into teams to both look for Genki and help villagers escape from hear."
"Right." Alan turned to the monsters. "Golem, Suzo you both stay near the village exit and help guide people out of the village. Mocchi, Tiger, Hare you go and search the east side. Pixie, Colt you both search south side and Holly, Senki and I will search the north."
"Right!"
Senki felt confused, everything was happening so fast around him but he fallowed Alan and Holly anyway, hoping only that by doing so he would find his brother in time.
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"Reid..." Genki murmured as he staggered down the streets feeling dizzy, the world around him was spinning. The world around him was completely out of focus. He wondered dizzily through the streets, not knowing why or where he was going. In fact he was barely even aware that he was walking, his mind seemed cluttered with the thoughts of someone else. The darkness around him was thick, and the only light strong enough to cut through it was the light of the stone that Deyarteb had embedded into his chest. The corrupted light acted like a beacon guiding him forward and he fallowed it not really knowing why.
"Reid, you traitor...why did you do it? Why....?" He heard the whispers being spoken by his lips but he did not know the meaning of them. He felt a deep sadness in his heart and he could feel tears coming down his cheeks as he weakly stumbling towards where the light was pulling him. "Why....? Reid...I..."
He stopped walking, standing still for a moment, the world was spinning all around him, but within the confusion he felt a sudden anger, a deep betrayal, a deep, undying hate.
"Why...!?"
He did not know if he said it or just heard it, but the question was demanded with such force, such everlasting contempt and betrayal that it pierced the very heavens themselves. Genki fell onto his two knees, the area around him was starting to become darker and fade. He collapsed onto the dirt with a soft moan.
"Sen-chan...where are you...?"
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"I–I think we've helped all the people we can.." Colt trembled as they walked down one of the southern roads of the village they had helped a few villagers back to Golem and Hare, but they also had found many who had been already slaughtered. They were falling down around them like flies, but they did not see anyone near by who could be doing it. Who could kill this quickly and this brutally? Some of these people...they were ripped to pieces, others look partly ate up. Pixie looked away from the bodies in disgust.
"It is disgusting, but we haven't looked every where yet."
"Aw, come on!" Colt whimpered tearfully. "I don't want to wander around here, what if we run into the killer?"
"Then we kick his ass."
"Be serious! We can't beat someone who could do this." Colt gestured towards the mutilated bodies. "Especially not without the others!"
"Colt, shut up."
"Hey–!"
"Shut up!" Pixie repeated harshly. "Listen..." The two women paused, listening to a soft noise that was coming some distance away from them. It was the voice of a young boy, being carried on the wind. It sounded as though he was crying...
"A survivor?" Colt asked.
"Could be." Pixie fallowed the noise with Colt scampering behind her, the fallowed it until they arrived at a row of houses. There was a figure standing in front of them, crying into his hands. He had dark black hair, pale skin, white clothes...
"I'm sorry....I'm so sorry Rion...." The figure was whimpering, and did not even seem to notice them.
"Hey—"Pixie began approaching him. "You better get out of here."
The monster's eyes widened as her hand passed right through the shoulder of the boy as she went touch him. He vanished as though he had never been there. "What the—?"
"AH! P–P–PIXIE!!!" Colt screamed, making the monster turn around to see what her partner was screaming about.
"What is it?"
"A–AH....."
Pixie fallowed the girls gaze to see a the boy from earlier walking towards them, his head lowered so his dark hair fell across his face, and his white clothing was covered in blood. He walked slowly and stiffly, his limbs jerking (Think of the girl from the ring) Pixie prepared herself for attack, pushing Colt, whom was particularly useless when it came to fighting behind her.
"Get out of here."
"But..."
"I can take care of this freak. He doesn't look so though, go and get the others."
"O...Ok...." Colt backed up towards the houses, waiting for her chance to be able to safely run past the boy. Pixie smirked at the bloody child tried to hide the fact that she was both disgusted and freaked out by him.
"Well, I hope that you have a mommy you little hell spawn, because you'll need someone to go crying home to when I open a can of whoop ass on you."
The boy did not stop in his movement towards her, or showed even the slightest reaction to her words. Pixie's smirk widened. "Ok then, you asked for it. LIGHTENING!!"
It hit the boy dead on, but he did not even so much as flinch. Pixie stared at him shocked not believing that her attack had no effect before she re- composed herself and began to ready her big bang attack. Colt backed up knowing what she was going to do, and covered her face to protect herself from the dust as Pixie fired her strongest attack at the boy. The girl looked back towards Pixie as the dust and the light of the attack faded, expecting to see the monster grinning in victory and that blood covered boy dead, what she saw was the opposite of what she had been expecting. Pixie was backing up half in shock, half in fear as the boy continued to come towards her without even the slightest wound.
"Th–this is unreal!" She cried out as she backed up into a house, Colt backed away from Pixie as the boy continued to come closer. She wanted to run down the road that was no longer being blocked but she couldn't just leave her friend, could she? As she stood there trying to decide if she should run away and get help or try to do something herself the boy came to a stop directly in front of Pixie, he stared at her for a long time, making Pixie's heart beat rapidly in her chest with a fear she had never known before. Several breath stopping moments passed before the boy reached out his hand and gently caressed the side of Pixie's face with his small, cold, bloody hands. She gasped as a vision flashed before her eyes.
FLASH
Twin boys were standing together before a giant monster an altar. They both had black hair and white clothes. They made a promise. The images changed to show the two boys in the same room, except one was laying on the altar. The image change again and all she could see was blood. A mirror in a golden plate smashed into five pieces, and there was a betrayed agonized scream. Lots of blood. One of the twins were laughing insanely, covered in blood.
FLASH
Pixie could feel herself laying on top of the altar that was in the vision, she could see the area as though it was real. It was too real to be a vision... Above her she heard laughter, insane laughter and saw the bloody twin, the boy in the village, the same boy in the vision, over her, his hands wrapped around her neck as he continued to howl with laughter.
"Die! Die! SUFFER!! EVERYBODY MUST KNOW MY SUFFERING!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"
She screamed as thousands of ghostly arms came out of the boys back and reached towards her, and then all she felt was pain.
Colt screamed, her eyes widening in pure terror, all her senses dulled when it came to this intense fear and all she knew was the haunting image before her eyes. She had saw the boy touch her friend, gently on the face and no more then a moment after the harmless looking caress Pixie was ripped apart by an unseen force, her blood splattering everywhere, including on Colt's face. The girl stared down in disbelief at the lost disk that now stood in Pixie's place and the blood that had splattered everywhere.
'But....but all he did was touch her.....'
Colt fell back with a cry as the bloody boy turned towards her and began to approach. She screamed, pulling herself back to her feet and tried to run away. But, though the boy was walking slowly to him she was just scampering.
"Somebody help me!! Help!" She cried out, stumbling, the laughter of the boy fallowed her. She ran out onto the street screaming taking terrified glances at the bloody boy behind her. Not looking at where she was going she tripped over one of the many slain and fell face first onto the blood drenched dirt. She whimpered, rolling onto her back seeing the bloody boy standing directly over her. No wait...it was not the bloody boy, it was the boy whom had been crying in front of the buildings. Still that did not stop her from screaming until her voice was horse. After all he looked just like the bloody boy except that she could see his face and he wasn't covered in blood. It could even be the same person for all she knew.
"The soul ritual."
The boy spoke it in a whisper before disappearing. Colt stared at the place where the boy vanished, her eye brows creasing in thought as her fear calmed down a little.
'The soul ritual? I recognise that phrase...but from where....?'
"Colt!"
"Colt chi!"
The girl turned towards the voices startled but relaxed as she saw Tiger, Hare and Mocchi running up to her. Had she ran all the way to the west side? Upon seeing them she began to cry, clinging onto Tiger for some sense of comfort.
"He killed her!"
"He killed her?" Hare repeated confused. "The boy..!" Colt sobbed. "He killed Pixie!"
The three monsters stared at the sobbing girl in shock.
"No chi! That can't be true chi!"
"But...Pixie was one of the strongest..." Hare whispered numbly is disbelief.
"Where is he!?" Tiger growled angrily. "I'll make him pay!"
"No..." Colt shook her head sniffling. "It's hopeless. All...all he...he did was...was touch her..."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that if he even lays one finger on you, your dead instantly!" Colt shouted at the lupine monster, before she started sobbing again. "That's why he can kill so many, so quickly....one touch and they are ripped to pieces...."
"H-how can we defeat something that we can't even touch?" Hare trembled.
"We have to warn the others chi!" Mocchi exclaimed.
"Right. Hare, Mocchi take Colt to Golem and Suzo. There is no use being hear if we can't even fight the enemy. I'll go find the others." Tiger ran towards the north side, hoping that he would catch up with Holly and the others before it was too late and they met the same fate as Pixie.
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Holly wiped a few tears away from her eyes as she walked past the heaps of dead bodies. No one had been spared, not even the very young or the very old.
"Holly." Alan whispered seeing her tears, and held her close. "Don't worry, we'll stop whoever is behind this, somehow."
"Alan...I know we will, but even if we do, their lives wont be restored."
"But we'll avenge them."
"We will..." Holly looked around herself and gasped. "Wait, where did Senki go!?"
Alan's eyes widened and he looked around for the boy whom had been silently tagging along behind them. He was not there anymore.
"Damn, where did he go!?"
"I was so sure he was right behind us..." Holly looked worried, before her eyes flashed with a surprised look as the stone began to glow around her neck. She stared down at it in wonderment, it was pointing out a direction on it.
This way.
She heard the voice and turned around to see two little twin girls standing behind her pointing down a small path in between two buildings.
"Who are you?" She asked them but they just vanished. "Wait!"
"Holly, who are you talking to?"
"There were two little girls standing there a few seconds ago. I think Senki went down there." Holly pointed towards the path that the two little girls had showed her.
"Ok, lets go then." Alan took her hand. "Stick close to me."
"I will." Holly held his hand back and fallowed him, stepping over the bodies and lost disks. Her hand clutched the magic stone, it felt so warm where everything else was so cold. 'Could Genki really be hear in this place....? If so, does he have anything to do with this...?'
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"Sen-chan! Sen-chan, come hear! Please come...."
Senki ran down the path hearing his brothers voice calling him. He knew he should of said something to the people he had been with but when he tried to, he felt a disgust in the back of his mind, telling him not to. He figured that the emotion had came from Genki, and so he obeyed his brother's wishes. He arrived outside a large shed, the door was slightly ajar and covered in bloody hand prints. He shuddered, trying to ignore the blood as he gripped the door, pulling it open. He stepped inside, seeing his brother standing in the middle of the room with a sad look in his eyes, he had blood stains on him and as he turned his head to look at him, Senki noticed tears in his brothers eyes.
"Genki."
"Senki, I'm glad your ok."
"Genki, what happened to you? Why are you hear?"
"I don't know. Something lured me hear. I...I saw him. A boy covered in blood, he killed so many...."
"Genki!" Senki ran over to him, giving him a big hug crying. "I was so worried about you. You promised you would not leave me, please, stop leaving me behind. Wait for me next time."
"I will."
Senki calmed his tears after a few moments. "Genki your friends are outside."
"What?"
"Your friends, they aren't dead. I saw them all, I'll take you to them if you want." Senki took his brother's hand to lead him out of the shed, but he felt his twin hold his steps as though he did not want to move. "What's wrong, Gen-chan?"
"I don't want to see them."
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"The sun..." Holly looked up at the sky as the darkness and cold left and it became sunny again. The bodies still remained, but everything else looked like how it had been before the massacre had happened.
"How odd." Alan looked around himself. "What do you think happened?"
"The magic stone does not feel that negative presence anymore."
"Holly, Alan!"
The two turned towards Tiger whom came running up to them.
"Pixie is dead..."
"What!?" Holly gasped in horror. "Wha....?"
"Colt says that a boy covered in blood touched her and she died instantly."
Holly turned her head away from them as tears snaked down her cheeks. "One touch?"
"Yes."
Alan put an arm around Holly to try and comfort her. "Tiger, Senki ran away from us. Can you sniff him out?"
"It'll be hard with all this blood, but I'll give it a try." Tiger sniffed the soil, the smell of blood was overpowering but he managed to pick up a slight trace of Senki's scent amongst it and he gestured with his head for Alan and Holly to fallow him.
"Will you be ok, Holly?"
"Yes, thanks Alan..." She fallowed Tiger and Alan miserably down the ally until they reached a blood covered shed door that was opened they stepped inside, causing two figures to turn around to look at them startled. Holly's eyes widened as she found herself staring at both Senki and Genki, despite her sorrow she smiled taking a few steps towards them.
"Genki, it's really you..."
Genki did not say anything, he just lowered his eyes towards the floor sadly.