Thank you to those who reviewed my earlier version of the story and I'm sorry if I confused anyone by removing it and then posting it back up, but well as you can see the mistake that I had earlier is no longer here. On with ch. 2.

Ch. 2 Finding

She looked up at the vast blue sky from amongst the branches and leaves of the maple tree that stood in the middle of a field with nothing but dead grass. Her long golden hair flowed down past her shoulders to her waist and the front left side was blue, defiant of the rest of her golden hair. Her silver-blue eyes then looked out across the valley as if searching for an exit, or an escape that would lead her out of this hell-hole she was forced to call home. This was the one place she came to think and get away from it all, even if this state of peace could only last for a few minutes. She could never stop herself from thinking that somewhere beyond her prison there must be something better. Suddenly a movement to the far edge of the corner caught her attention. She saw that it was a person with long blue hair streaming out behind her wildly as she ran. She knew who it was. It was Shana, as always, running across the field to get her. It had always been like this, the same repeating pattern each and every day.

'Why did this have to happen to us?' Mayu thought hopelessly. She asked herself this question everyday and yet was still unable to find the answer. As Shana reached the bottom of the tree she shuddered, knowing what she would have to go back to. The yelling screaming and punishment that would follow from that conniving old man who only cared for himself.

"Hey Mayu. I hate to say it but your in trouble again."

Mayu then looked down into her best freinds warm dark eyes and sighed deeply.

"I know. Aren't I always?" Mayu said with a weak smile.

Shana smiled back and then jumped up into the tree and sat down on the branch next to her.

"Of course I'm in trouble as well." Shana stated.

"As always." Mayu said in response.

"As always." Shana chanted back as if it were a line she had memorized from a play.

Suddenly Mayu undertook a serious tone.

"I think would should leave tonight, how about you." Mayu said in an undertone as if to make sure no one else would hear, even though there wasn't a single person in sight. Shana only smirked.

"I've thought that we should for two years, what a strange coincidence it is that now you suddenly wish to leave now as well." Shana said in a mocking tone.

Mayu flushed.

"But I thought that-"

"You were just being too cautious." Shana laughed, cutting her off.

"Well...I ... uh..." Mayu stuttered struggling to find the right words.

"What?" she asked back.

"Alright fine, but before I tell you anything you have to promise not to laugh because you'll probably think I'm crazy after I tell you this."

"I promise." Shana answered.

Before Mayu began she looked out across the valley as if she were deep in thought. The wind suddenly picked up, scattering the dead leaves of the maple tree in its wake.

"I've always thought that we should leave too. Don't get me wrong about that, but there was always this weird feeling I had, yet at the same time it was also comforting. At times it seemed like a forgotten thought at the back of my head and because of it I always felt that someone would come and save us and all we had to do was wait." Her words were sad.

"For a time, I even started to believe this feeling I had, but I see know how stupid I was in believing that lie, that I had probably made for myself. I know now that was never true ,for it's been two years now." she said with fake smile, trying to conceal her disappointment.

"Well... do you think I'm crazy or not?"she asked, waiting for an answer.

Shana on other hand, did not think her best friend crazy. She was actually shocked and surprised for she too had felt the same way.

"No, I don't think your crazy at all." she said looking back at Mayu. "I had felt the exact same way and I didn't want to tell you for the exact same reason. Isn't that ironic?"she asked softly.

Before Mayu could answer, they both jumped as they heard a big bang, and they saw a huge flash of an explosion tear through the sky. It blinded them momentarily but they were soon able to see again.

"What the hell was that?!"

Before anyone could say another word, they were almost thrown from the tree by great gusts of wind from the explosion, and just as soon as the wind came it was gone. Mayu quickly checked to see if Shana was still in the tree with her. She was, but she was now hanging from the branch.

"Um. I think we should get down from the tree now." Shana panted, bewildered. They hadn't expected all that wind to come afterwards.

Once they were out of the tree and gratefully on the ground they continued to talk again.

"What do you think that was?" Shana asked shaken.

"I don't know... maybe a bomb or something, but then I don't think so because don't bombs usually explode on land?"

"I don't know, maybe."

"You think we should check it out, I don't think anything would be living after that."

"Mayu?"

"Yeah."

"Remember how curiosity killed the cat?"she asked sternly.

"Hey come on, its better then sitting here and doing nothing."

Shana thought on it and after a while she finally gave in.

"Alright fine."

It didn't take them long to get to the explosion sight for it had only been on the very edge of the field and it was right inside a cluster of trees that couldn't rightly be called a forest. They stopped just on the edge of it.

"We'll go in at the same time ok?" Shana asked shakily.

"...Yeah." Mayu managed to gasp. Of course, neither new what to expect but what they would soon see would be beyond what either had imagined the explosion to be.

They were wary when they started their way in. They moved very carefully and hardly breathed. Their ears were pricked, to catch any noise that broke the dead, uncomfortable silence from under the trees, and their eyes searched for any sign of the slightest movement. Mayu, who was a little ways away from Shana, suddenly stopped dead and motioned frantically for her to come over. Shana quickly reached her and when she saw what she was looking at she gasped. This was definitely something neither expected.

There, in the middle of a newly made clearing was a big ball shaped structure wrought of metal with what looked like some type of door on its side. It had two words written on it that read

CAPSULE CORP.

They both jumped back as the door swung open and a tall man with oddly shaped hair that had thick strands sticking out in opposite directions stood in the door way.