A.N. Ok I fixed this chappie a bit cause for some reason the asterisks weren't showing up...odd I know. Anywho...if they do show ...... means the stuff going thru Hakkai's head... you'll get it when you get there. Anyway! Thanks for the reviews guys! They make me all warm and Fuzzy n' stuff. Rock on wit yer bad selves!
Hakkai awoke slowly and groaned when as he gained consciousness, he gained a sense of all the pain his body had gone through. "Where am I?" He looked around, squinting as he tried to get everything on his right side to focus as everything was blurry due to the poor vision of that eye. From what he could see, however, he was in a small dimly lit room that had wires covering the walls like wallpaper, switches were blinking near the steel door of the chamber, and he could see into a small control room through a window to the right of the door. He had to get out of this hell hole, the vibe he was getting from the room almost gave him a migraine, but he soon found out as he moved his hand, that he wasn't going anywhere. He realized he was bound to the cold metal chair he was in by sharp metal cuffs around his wrists and ankles. Then a sensation of something tight on his temples came to his mind. A thin metal band was clamped around the back of his head and ended at his temples with a pressure that became very annoying after a while. "I have to get out of here." Hakkai said aloud to who he thought was no one.
"You're not going anywhere, Cho Gonou." A man's voice came out of the mass of wires behind him, the use of his old name caught Hakkai's breath.
"Who are you?"
The man stepped into Hakkai's view, he wore a long white lab coat and his dark hair hung in his eyes. The man fixed his glasses higher on the bridge of his nose as he introduced himself as Dr. Sajya Kamyou.
"It's nice to see that you're awake...finally. Now we can get this little experiment underway, can't we?"
"Experiment? What are you talking about?" Hakkai's voice was broken
as he tried to shake off the fatigue.
"Now if I took the time to explain the situation I could lose my job. Let's just settle on...oh... My boss wants you to suffer like you never have before. OK?"
"Your boss?" As if on cue, a man entered the dark, cluttered room and stood beside Dr. Kamyou. The man grinned as he studied Hakkai's worn appearence in front of him.
"Cho Gonou." The man spat at Hakkai's feet. He continued as he wiped his mouth, "So here you are. Hah, I didn't expect you would look so...pathetic."
"It happens after you get buried under five hundred pounds of steel." Hakkai shot back.
"A smart-ass too. And even in your situation." The man stepped closer to Hakkai and leaned down so that his ugly face came into horrible focus. "My name is Professor Mau-Shin."
"And this name should mean something to me?" Hakkai tried to look away but the man grabbed his face and snapped it back to look at him.
"Maybe not my name, and if I told you the name of my fiancé it wouldn't matter either because you slaughtered her without a second glance!!"
Hakkai couldn't say anything as the hand stayed clamped on his jaw, covering his mouth, but his expression in his eyes was one of obvious confusion.
"That's right. She was a member of the Dark Crow clan, the most beautiful demon of them all until you ripped her face off and gutted her, Cho Gonou." The grip of the Mau-Shin's hands tightened painfully, causing Hakkai to wince slightly, and the way the man spoke his name was in the tone of such hatred Hakkai thought only he possessed. "It was a forbidden arrangement of course, but even that wasn't going to stop us from marrying in two days after you slaughtered her clan!" The man brought Hakkai's head up and slammed it back against the metal of the chair out of rage. Dr. Kamyou came up from behind and pulled the professor from Hakkai.
"Sir! You're going to damage the device!" Mau-Shin hesitantly allowed himself to be pulled back, but the bruises on Hakkai's cheeks stayed. "We should get the procedure underway."
Hakkai bit his lip as he tried to shut out the throbbing pain in his head. Lowering his head he closed his eyes and grinned as the antipathy he had thought he sealed away long ago was beginning to resurface with this reminder he was just dealt.. "Well a fiancé for a fiancé I suppose, hm? And you're wrong, Mau-Shin. I do remember filleting her and feeling her filthy blood pour over my hands. What do you say to th--"
Hakkai was unable to finish his sentence as his head snapped to the side from the incredible force of the punch Mau-Shin dealt him.
"Professor! The equipment!"
The professor unclenched his fists and followed Kamyou to the door leading to the control room. But before entering he turned and glared back at Hakkai. "You're going to wish you died with your woman after we're done with you."
Sanzo, Gojyo, and Goku stopped at the entrance of the alleyway, looking around for any clue of Hakkai's whereabouts.
"Which way did they go?" Sanzo asked Gojyo as he looked around.
Gojyo pointed in the direction he'd witnessed the shadowed figures move in. "I think it was down here."
"Hey, I think I found something!" Goku's voice came from the shadows and Gojyo and Sanzo hurried over.
"What is it?" Gojyo looked down as Goku held up a small feathered dart which shined dully from the dim light of the streetlamps behind them. "There might be more if we keep going."
"You say they were on the roof?" Sanzo asked, his violet eyes shifting to the kappa.
"Yeah."
"Goku, Why don't you hop up there and follow us from the rooftop." Sanzo suggested as he saw Goku get up and nod.
"Gotcha." He disappeared for a moment and was visible once again on the edge of the roof of the building to their right. The party continued forward about another hundred yards into the alley, without anything else becoming a clue. The alleyway turned to the left and came out on a main street that was now dead due to the late hour.
"One dart. Ch, that tells us nothing." Sanzo said "optimistically."
"We have to go back and look." Gojyo was panicking now, his mind automatically dwelling on: What if Hakkai was dead? Who would he live with after this journey? He couldn't live without Hakkai, he needed Hakkai! "Goku?! Did you find anything?"
"Nothing..." Goku jumped down from the building and rejoined the priest and the distressed water sprite.
"I'm sure Hakkai can take care of himself long enough for us to figure this out." Sanzo lit up a cigarette, talking around the filter that was between his lips.
"You don't know that!" Gojyo not only surprised himself when he realized the volume of his own voice but the joining of a new voice into the conversation..
"You guys lookin' fer someone?" A small old man made his way towards the group from the recesses of the alley's shadows. Sanzo instinctively wrapped his fingers around his gun as the man drew near.
"What's it to you?" Sanzo's gruff voice was first to respond.
"Not much I suppose. Just thought you fella's were lookin' for these." The old man turned and began to walk away as he held up three more darts in his long, bony fingers.
"Wait!" Gojyo jumped in front of the old man. "Where did you find those?"
"Oh, letsee...Where did I find these?"
"C'mon Grampa, we don't have all night!" Gojyo urged as he tried to desperately keep his fists to himself and not embedded in the skull of the old man.
"Ah! I remember. That way!" The old man pointed back down the alley way they had just searched.
"You have got to be shittin' me!" Gojyo cried out in frustration.
"He must've picked them up before we got to them." Goku offered as he studied the elder and held his nose. Ugh, I can smell that guy from over here.
"Well Old Man, you forgot one." Sanzo held up the dart they had discovered, then with a swish of cloth, the priest turned and headed towards the main street. "He's of no help to us. Let's go."
With a sigh Gojyo and Goku followed. "This sucks. I hope Hakkai's alright," Goku murmured.
"Yeah." Gojyo agreed as he shoved his hands in his pockets.
But the old man wasn't finished grating on the party's nerves. "Oh hohoho! True I can't help you with your little darts here, but I do have information on where your friend is, you see!"
Sanzo, Goku, and Gojyo stopped in their tracks. "What did you say?" Sanzo looked back to the eccentric old man who almost seemed to be dancing over towards them.
The old man quieted and he squeezed himself into their niche. His odor filling the nostrils and curling hairs of those around him. "These darts belong to the Fourth's Quadrant's testing facilities. These laboratories are well known for their research in criminal punishment, ya know."
"Criminal punishment? Are you saying Hakkai... is being tested on?" Gojyo stared at the darts.
"Oh don't be surprised, he's not the first to--"
"How do we know we can trust a crazy old fart like you?" Sanzo interrupted as he glared at the old man with his cold eyes.
"You don't know! Hah! But maybe you'd see I speak the truth if you'd keep yer mouth shut, blondie!" From nowhere, the old man pulled out a cane and smacked Sanzo hard in the knees.
"Why you little--!!" Sanzo was immediately restrained from blowing the tiny man's head off by Gojyo (who also clamped a hand over Sanzo's mouth) and Goku who each took and arm.
"Please, if you know where our friend is, we'd really appreciate you telling us," Goku pleaded, his gold eyes burning into the old man's beady ones.
"Well, The Criminal Punishment Department or CPD as it is better known, has had a long, classified history of testing on criminals from different cities around this area. Some of the test subjects never made it out...but some did. Those who made it out either died soon after from the shock they were put through in those horrible experiments or went crazy. Hahah! Well you see, it's hard to say what could be happening to your friend right now, but I can tell you it might already be to late to save his sanity!"
Gojyo couldn't hold himself back as he grabbed the little man by the collar, nearly lifting him off the ground. "Listen old man! If you don't tell us what you know in the next ten fucking seconds---!!"
"Gojyo!" Goku grabbed the enraged kappa and peeled him off the elder.
The little man took a few steps back, his expression growing grim as Gojyo's eyes seemed to glow a ferocious shade of red. "I'm sorry, boy. Like I said, all those who escaped either died soon after or went crazy. Call me crazy!"
"That means..." Sanzo stepped closer to the old man. "You know where we can find Hakkai."
The old man nodded, "Yessir I do!"
You're lucky, geezer. I was at seven seconds. Gojyo thought to himself bitterly. "Well if you don't mind showing us where to go before our friend is beyond repair, it'd be greatly appreciated!"
"Yes, Yes! I'll show you!"
"You're not coming with us, you'll just slow us down! Just tell us where to go," Gojyo berated the old man.
"It's tricky! You'll lose a lot of time if I don't come." Then unexpectedly, the old man's voice dropped and his disposition became serious. "Ayways, I have a favor to repay someone."
"Fine! Get on!" Gojyo knelt down so the elder could get on his back.
"Wee! Piggy back ride!"
The group took off immediately following the directions the hermit gave them.
Ugh, I can't believe I willingly let some old guy get on top of me. The idea made him shudder as he added, "Sanzo, I want you to shoot me after this."
"It'd be my pleasure," Was all the priest could make out between breaths, smoking as much as he did lately was really becoming quite the detriment to his stamina.
"Ok! Now just another two miles! Down this way!" The old man's high pitched voice screeched in Gojyo's ear.
"Another two miles?!" Goku almost tripped over the statement he heard. "Are you serious?"
"Just...Shut up ...and run, monkey!" Sanzo gasped.
"I can make it, I'm just not sure about you guys," Goku threw back.
"I'll kill you!"
"Hey! Cut the shit and save it!" Gojyo shouted at the two in the slight lead of him Both Goku and Sanzo quieted when they heard Gojyo of all people tell them to shut it. They knew how stressed everyone was, and especially how stressed Gojyo was over this. It's not like they were oblivious of how Gojyo felt about Hakkai. Don't worry, 'Kai. Just hang in there, man. I'm coming.
His screams could practically be heard from the next building as image after image of Kanan's death flashed through his mind. "Stop!! GODDAMNIT JUST STOP!" Blood pooled under his wrists and dripped to the floor as Hakkai tried desperately to free himself from the movie that looped inside his skull. There was Kanan behind the bars...he'd found her! "C'mon Kanan! I'll get you out of here and we'll go back home!" In his mind's eyes, he could see his bloodied hands reach out to the bars around Kanan's face. Her face, her sad face, her sad eyes. Wasn't she happy to see him? He felt a slight tug at his belt as his knife slid from the sheath and saw Kanan back away from him with the sharp metal glinting dangerously close to her neck. "Wh-What are you doing, Kanan?!"
"It's too late for me, Gonou. There's a monster that grows inside of me. I'm sorry. I..."
"Kanan..." Hakkai's eyes bulged and his lip quivered as all he could manage was a whisper as the knife slid effortlessly into his one love's flesh. Again....and again...and---
"Somebody kill me...."
"KANAAAAAAN!!" Tears streamed down Hakkai's face as finally, the movie stopped. He slumped forward, his body shaking uncontrollably as all the images he'd tried so hard to shut away for years were once again cemented in the creases of his mind.
A voice filled the room via the speaker above the door, the tone eerily metallic as it's message began with a sinister laugh. "So Cho Gonou, you don't look so good. But we deeply appreciate the wonderful feedback your giving us on that little gadget around your head. It will be a big hit for others in the future I'm sure." It was Kamyou. But as he slowly looked up, he saw the younger scientist shoved away from the microphone as Mau-Shin took the stage.
"You're probably wondering how I got this. Well, we had you hooked up to a little machine before you awoke that let us search the beautiful reels of footage inside your mind. Taking that, we put it on this little CD we have in here and with minor editing, we created this amazing short film you've had the pleasure of viewing. But this is only the first chapter." Mau-Shin pulled out the CD and placed it aside as he inserted another. "You're friend, Gojyo is it? Well, he's going to make a guest appearance for you. Enjoy." The voice ended as it had started, with an identical laughter.
Hakkai closed his eyes tightly and gripped the chair firmly as he awaited for the worst.
Hakkai awoke slowly and groaned when as he gained consciousness, he gained a sense of all the pain his body had gone through. "Where am I?" He looked around, squinting as he tried to get everything on his right side to focus as everything was blurry due to the poor vision of that eye. From what he could see, however, he was in a small dimly lit room that had wires covering the walls like wallpaper, switches were blinking near the steel door of the chamber, and he could see into a small control room through a window to the right of the door. He had to get out of this hell hole, the vibe he was getting from the room almost gave him a migraine, but he soon found out as he moved his hand, that he wasn't going anywhere. He realized he was bound to the cold metal chair he was in by sharp metal cuffs around his wrists and ankles. Then a sensation of something tight on his temples came to his mind. A thin metal band was clamped around the back of his head and ended at his temples with a pressure that became very annoying after a while. "I have to get out of here." Hakkai said aloud to who he thought was no one.
"You're not going anywhere, Cho Gonou." A man's voice came out of the mass of wires behind him, the use of his old name caught Hakkai's breath.
"Who are you?"
The man stepped into Hakkai's view, he wore a long white lab coat and his dark hair hung in his eyes. The man fixed his glasses higher on the bridge of his nose as he introduced himself as Dr. Sajya Kamyou.
"It's nice to see that you're awake...finally. Now we can get this little experiment underway, can't we?"
"Experiment? What are you talking about?" Hakkai's voice was broken
as he tried to shake off the fatigue.
"Now if I took the time to explain the situation I could lose my job. Let's just settle on...oh... My boss wants you to suffer like you never have before. OK?"
"Your boss?" As if on cue, a man entered the dark, cluttered room and stood beside Dr. Kamyou. The man grinned as he studied Hakkai's worn appearence in front of him.
"Cho Gonou." The man spat at Hakkai's feet. He continued as he wiped his mouth, "So here you are. Hah, I didn't expect you would look so...pathetic."
"It happens after you get buried under five hundred pounds of steel." Hakkai shot back.
"A smart-ass too. And even in your situation." The man stepped closer to Hakkai and leaned down so that his ugly face came into horrible focus. "My name is Professor Mau-Shin."
"And this name should mean something to me?" Hakkai tried to look away but the man grabbed his face and snapped it back to look at him.
"Maybe not my name, and if I told you the name of my fiancé it wouldn't matter either because you slaughtered her without a second glance!!"
Hakkai couldn't say anything as the hand stayed clamped on his jaw, covering his mouth, but his expression in his eyes was one of obvious confusion.
"That's right. She was a member of the Dark Crow clan, the most beautiful demon of them all until you ripped her face off and gutted her, Cho Gonou." The grip of the Mau-Shin's hands tightened painfully, causing Hakkai to wince slightly, and the way the man spoke his name was in the tone of such hatred Hakkai thought only he possessed. "It was a forbidden arrangement of course, but even that wasn't going to stop us from marrying in two days after you slaughtered her clan!" The man brought Hakkai's head up and slammed it back against the metal of the chair out of rage. Dr. Kamyou came up from behind and pulled the professor from Hakkai.
"Sir! You're going to damage the device!" Mau-Shin hesitantly allowed himself to be pulled back, but the bruises on Hakkai's cheeks stayed. "We should get the procedure underway."
Hakkai bit his lip as he tried to shut out the throbbing pain in his head. Lowering his head he closed his eyes and grinned as the antipathy he had thought he sealed away long ago was beginning to resurface with this reminder he was just dealt.. "Well a fiancé for a fiancé I suppose, hm? And you're wrong, Mau-Shin. I do remember filleting her and feeling her filthy blood pour over my hands. What do you say to th--"
Hakkai was unable to finish his sentence as his head snapped to the side from the incredible force of the punch Mau-Shin dealt him.
"Professor! The equipment!"
The professor unclenched his fists and followed Kamyou to the door leading to the control room. But before entering he turned and glared back at Hakkai. "You're going to wish you died with your woman after we're done with you."
Sanzo, Gojyo, and Goku stopped at the entrance of the alleyway, looking around for any clue of Hakkai's whereabouts.
"Which way did they go?" Sanzo asked Gojyo as he looked around.
Gojyo pointed in the direction he'd witnessed the shadowed figures move in. "I think it was down here."
"Hey, I think I found something!" Goku's voice came from the shadows and Gojyo and Sanzo hurried over.
"What is it?" Gojyo looked down as Goku held up a small feathered dart which shined dully from the dim light of the streetlamps behind them. "There might be more if we keep going."
"You say they were on the roof?" Sanzo asked, his violet eyes shifting to the kappa.
"Yeah."
"Goku, Why don't you hop up there and follow us from the rooftop." Sanzo suggested as he saw Goku get up and nod.
"Gotcha." He disappeared for a moment and was visible once again on the edge of the roof of the building to their right. The party continued forward about another hundred yards into the alley, without anything else becoming a clue. The alleyway turned to the left and came out on a main street that was now dead due to the late hour.
"One dart. Ch, that tells us nothing." Sanzo said "optimistically."
"We have to go back and look." Gojyo was panicking now, his mind automatically dwelling on: What if Hakkai was dead? Who would he live with after this journey? He couldn't live without Hakkai, he needed Hakkai! "Goku?! Did you find anything?"
"Nothing..." Goku jumped down from the building and rejoined the priest and the distressed water sprite.
"I'm sure Hakkai can take care of himself long enough for us to figure this out." Sanzo lit up a cigarette, talking around the filter that was between his lips.
"You don't know that!" Gojyo not only surprised himself when he realized the volume of his own voice but the joining of a new voice into the conversation..
"You guys lookin' fer someone?" A small old man made his way towards the group from the recesses of the alley's shadows. Sanzo instinctively wrapped his fingers around his gun as the man drew near.
"What's it to you?" Sanzo's gruff voice was first to respond.
"Not much I suppose. Just thought you fella's were lookin' for these." The old man turned and began to walk away as he held up three more darts in his long, bony fingers.
"Wait!" Gojyo jumped in front of the old man. "Where did you find those?"
"Oh, letsee...Where did I find these?"
"C'mon Grampa, we don't have all night!" Gojyo urged as he tried to desperately keep his fists to himself and not embedded in the skull of the old man.
"Ah! I remember. That way!" The old man pointed back down the alley way they had just searched.
"You have got to be shittin' me!" Gojyo cried out in frustration.
"He must've picked them up before we got to them." Goku offered as he studied the elder and held his nose. Ugh, I can smell that guy from over here.
"Well Old Man, you forgot one." Sanzo held up the dart they had discovered, then with a swish of cloth, the priest turned and headed towards the main street. "He's of no help to us. Let's go."
With a sigh Gojyo and Goku followed. "This sucks. I hope Hakkai's alright," Goku murmured.
"Yeah." Gojyo agreed as he shoved his hands in his pockets.
But the old man wasn't finished grating on the party's nerves. "Oh hohoho! True I can't help you with your little darts here, but I do have information on where your friend is, you see!"
Sanzo, Goku, and Gojyo stopped in their tracks. "What did you say?" Sanzo looked back to the eccentric old man who almost seemed to be dancing over towards them.
The old man quieted and he squeezed himself into their niche. His odor filling the nostrils and curling hairs of those around him. "These darts belong to the Fourth's Quadrant's testing facilities. These laboratories are well known for their research in criminal punishment, ya know."
"Criminal punishment? Are you saying Hakkai... is being tested on?" Gojyo stared at the darts.
"Oh don't be surprised, he's not the first to--"
"How do we know we can trust a crazy old fart like you?" Sanzo interrupted as he glared at the old man with his cold eyes.
"You don't know! Hah! But maybe you'd see I speak the truth if you'd keep yer mouth shut, blondie!" From nowhere, the old man pulled out a cane and smacked Sanzo hard in the knees.
"Why you little--!!" Sanzo was immediately restrained from blowing the tiny man's head off by Gojyo (who also clamped a hand over Sanzo's mouth) and Goku who each took and arm.
"Please, if you know where our friend is, we'd really appreciate you telling us," Goku pleaded, his gold eyes burning into the old man's beady ones.
"Well, The Criminal Punishment Department or CPD as it is better known, has had a long, classified history of testing on criminals from different cities around this area. Some of the test subjects never made it out...but some did. Those who made it out either died soon after from the shock they were put through in those horrible experiments or went crazy. Hahah! Well you see, it's hard to say what could be happening to your friend right now, but I can tell you it might already be to late to save his sanity!"
Gojyo couldn't hold himself back as he grabbed the little man by the collar, nearly lifting him off the ground. "Listen old man! If you don't tell us what you know in the next ten fucking seconds---!!"
"Gojyo!" Goku grabbed the enraged kappa and peeled him off the elder.
The little man took a few steps back, his expression growing grim as Gojyo's eyes seemed to glow a ferocious shade of red. "I'm sorry, boy. Like I said, all those who escaped either died soon after or went crazy. Call me crazy!"
"That means..." Sanzo stepped closer to the old man. "You know where we can find Hakkai."
The old man nodded, "Yessir I do!"
You're lucky, geezer. I was at seven seconds. Gojyo thought to himself bitterly. "Well if you don't mind showing us where to go before our friend is beyond repair, it'd be greatly appreciated!"
"Yes, Yes! I'll show you!"
"You're not coming with us, you'll just slow us down! Just tell us where to go," Gojyo berated the old man.
"It's tricky! You'll lose a lot of time if I don't come." Then unexpectedly, the old man's voice dropped and his disposition became serious. "Ayways, I have a favor to repay someone."
"Fine! Get on!" Gojyo knelt down so the elder could get on his back.
"Wee! Piggy back ride!"
The group took off immediately following the directions the hermit gave them.
Ugh, I can't believe I willingly let some old guy get on top of me. The idea made him shudder as he added, "Sanzo, I want you to shoot me after this."
"It'd be my pleasure," Was all the priest could make out between breaths, smoking as much as he did lately was really becoming quite the detriment to his stamina.
"Ok! Now just another two miles! Down this way!" The old man's high pitched voice screeched in Gojyo's ear.
"Another two miles?!" Goku almost tripped over the statement he heard. "Are you serious?"
"Just...Shut up ...and run, monkey!" Sanzo gasped.
"I can make it, I'm just not sure about you guys," Goku threw back.
"I'll kill you!"
"Hey! Cut the shit and save it!" Gojyo shouted at the two in the slight lead of him Both Goku and Sanzo quieted when they heard Gojyo of all people tell them to shut it. They knew how stressed everyone was, and especially how stressed Gojyo was over this. It's not like they were oblivious of how Gojyo felt about Hakkai. Don't worry, 'Kai. Just hang in there, man. I'm coming.
His screams could practically be heard from the next building as image after image of Kanan's death flashed through his mind. "Stop!! GODDAMNIT JUST STOP!" Blood pooled under his wrists and dripped to the floor as Hakkai tried desperately to free himself from the movie that looped inside his skull. There was Kanan behind the bars...he'd found her! "C'mon Kanan! I'll get you out of here and we'll go back home!" In his mind's eyes, he could see his bloodied hands reach out to the bars around Kanan's face. Her face, her sad face, her sad eyes. Wasn't she happy to see him? He felt a slight tug at his belt as his knife slid from the sheath and saw Kanan back away from him with the sharp metal glinting dangerously close to her neck. "Wh-What are you doing, Kanan?!"
"It's too late for me, Gonou. There's a monster that grows inside of me. I'm sorry. I..."
"Kanan..." Hakkai's eyes bulged and his lip quivered as all he could manage was a whisper as the knife slid effortlessly into his one love's flesh. Again....and again...and---
"Somebody kill me...."
"KANAAAAAAN!!" Tears streamed down Hakkai's face as finally, the movie stopped. He slumped forward, his body shaking uncontrollably as all the images he'd tried so hard to shut away for years were once again cemented in the creases of his mind.
A voice filled the room via the speaker above the door, the tone eerily metallic as it's message began with a sinister laugh. "So Cho Gonou, you don't look so good. But we deeply appreciate the wonderful feedback your giving us on that little gadget around your head. It will be a big hit for others in the future I'm sure." It was Kamyou. But as he slowly looked up, he saw the younger scientist shoved away from the microphone as Mau-Shin took the stage.
"You're probably wondering how I got this. Well, we had you hooked up to a little machine before you awoke that let us search the beautiful reels of footage inside your mind. Taking that, we put it on this little CD we have in here and with minor editing, we created this amazing short film you've had the pleasure of viewing. But this is only the first chapter." Mau-Shin pulled out the CD and placed it aside as he inserted another. "You're friend, Gojyo is it? Well, he's going to make a guest appearance for you. Enjoy." The voice ended as it had started, with an identical laughter.
Hakkai closed his eyes tightly and gripped the chair firmly as he awaited for the worst.