Chapter 3

"Hello? Guys?" she looked around and saw nothing but darkness. "Are you here some where? Its a really funny joke... Really... Unn..." She fell to the ground and broke down crying. She had been wandering around for hours and haden't found anything except a couple of walls and skeletons. She could find no door and when ever she called, no one answered. She couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't go on. Kyo and Yuki haden't come looking for her like the sisters said, she couldn't even find them and right then, she wanted to find them more than ever. She closed her eyes and tried to think, but nothing cme to mind. "Oh mom, what am I going to do?" Tohru Honda said before she wept even more.

"So we can't help her and she's all alone?! Dammit that pisses me off! So what are we supposed to do?!"

"I guess we can only wait for her..." Izumi said.

"Hopefully she will come out. I don't know what I would do if she didn't..." Yuki said looking a bit sad.

"Don't look so sad Yuki, I'll substitute for Tohru until she gets back if you want..." Yume said.

Yuki and Kyo looked at each other. "No Yume, I think we would rather have the real Tohru."

"But we can't help her and I don't think she has magical powers. So all we can do is wait, and who knows how long its going to take." Izumi said.

"How the hell do you think I can just wait here like this?! I got to help her!" Kyo yelled.

"But you can't! If we're not allowed in, then you certainly are not allowed in either!" Izumi exclaimed.

"Well I have to freakin try! I can't just sit around here and mope like the rest of you! I've got to do something! I'm not going to let her go through this alone!" Kyo yelled as he was walking over to the door.

"Kyo!" Izumi yelled, "Don't touch the door!"

It was too late. Kyo went flying backwards, hit the wall across the room and landed right next to Izumi. "Kyo! Are you alright?!"

"Dammit! Why won't it let me in?!" Kyo asked.

"I told you, if it won't let us in, then there is no way that you can get in."

"Well we've got to find a way in!"

"No Kyo! You'll get hurt again!" Izumi said. "Please Yuki stop him!"

"For once Izumi, I totally agree with Kyo." Yuki said looking at the door to the maze. "We've got to save her and the only way to do that is to find a way in that maze."

"Yuki! You can't be serious!" Yume said looking at him with concerned eyes.

"Never in my life have I been more so." Yuki said closing his eyes.

"See now that's what I'm talking about! Maybe if we keep attacking the barrier will wear down!" Kyo exclaimed.

"You stupid cat, do you really think that is the way to do this? We'll both be killed and then there will be no one left to save Miss Honda!"

"Well at least I came up with a plan instead of just standing there watching all this happening and staring into space! At least I'm trying to save her!"

"Don't you think that I want to save Miss Honda too?!"Yuki yelled.

"You don't seem like you're trying too hard! What do you have a permanent brain freeze?!"

"Here they go again..." Izumi said.

"If you ask me, I don't think they'll ever save her if they're still fighting." Yume said with a sigh. Izumi nidded her head in agreement.

"Aww Tohru... Why are you crying?"

"Mommy... I was taking care of a birdie and he died today. I miss her so much mommy!"

"Well Tohru, everything doesn't live forever. Their time on this planet is wonderful. They enjoy it and then one day the go to heaven. Your bird is in heaven right now Tohru."

"But how am I going to tell her babies that she died?!"

"Well you've never given up before have you? Don't give up now. You don't want to be a quiter do you?"

"Sniff sniff... no..."

"Then you'll find a way. I know you will. You can do anything you want if you work hard at it..."

"Mom?" Tohru woke up sprawled out across the floor with tears in her eyes. "That's right mom. I've never given up, up until now and I don't intend to start being a quiter." Its just like mom said. I can do anything if I work hard at it. "Thanks mom. I needed that. Now, how will I get out of here? Its too dark to see so I can't just look for the door. Somehow I've got to make it brighter..."

"How the hell do you think I can just wait here like this?! I got to help her!"

"But you can't! If we're not allowed in, then you certainly are not allowed in either!"

"Well I have to freakin try! I can't just sit around here and mope like the rest of you! I've got to do something! I'm not going to let her go through this alone!"

"Kyo?! Is that you?!" He came for me? Tohru found a wall from where the sound was coming and pushed her ear up against it.

"Kyo! Don't touch the door!"

"Kyo! Are you alright?!"

"Dammit! Why won't it let me in?!" Kyo asked.

"I told you, if it won't let us in, then there is no way that you can get in."

"Well we've got to find a way in!"

"No Kyo! You'll get hurt again! Please Yuki stop him!"

"For once Izumi, I totally agree with Kyo. We've got to save her and the only way to do that is to find a way in that maze."

"Yuki! You can't be serious!"

Yuki? Yuki is here too?!

"Never in my life have I been more so."

Tohru was about to cry.

They care about me. They're trying everything they can do to save me... I have such good friends. I can't let them down! I've got to do something so I can see them again. Wait a second! Maybe if I send messages to them with my mind. Kyo... Yuki... come in... so you hear me?

SECONDS LATER...

"Okay maybe that was a dumb idea. But I've got to do something to let them know that I'm okay! They're working so hard to get in here and help me. I can't just sit here and wait like I'm help helpless or something... although I sorta am... but still! If they're not giving up, then neither am I!"

At that moment a blue light started shining from Tohru head. "Huh?" My head... it feels warm..." The light got bigger and brighter until she was enveloped in it. "Hey! What's going on?! I can't see!" Tohru exclaimed in confusion. "Help me!" were her last words before she disappeared.

"Dammit all! I can't get through!" Kyo shouted.

"I told you that it probably wasn't going to work you stupid cat."

"Oh shut up rat boy!" Kyo said. Kyo fell to his hands and knees. "Damn you! Damn you to hell!" Kyo had no strength left in him. All he do was yell. He was half way across the floor from the door.

"Kyo?" Izumi said concerned.

"This is not fair... Why her?!" Izumi and the other two just starred at him in silence. "Dammit answer me!" Kyo said pounding his fist into the ground.

"Kyo, you musn't!" Izumi said. "You'll get hurt!"

"Who cares if I get hurt?! If I can't even save one girl then I deserve to die!"

Izumi was surprised.

"I couldn't save her, I can't even help!" Kyo looked up and for the first time any of them had seen, he was crying. Izumi let out a gasp of air. "I can't give up though. She's probably just sitting there thinking that it was better this way, that it was better that she disappear so she wouldn't be in the way so much but..." Kyo started moving towards the door. "She's not... She is the one person who's accepted me without having a curse themselves. She is the one girl who opened up my heart..." She is the only Tohru that I truley care about. And I won't let her go so easily.

Kyo was 2 feet away from the door.

This is it... I've got to get through that door. Even if I get stuck in there, as long as I can save her... It doesn't matter. My life doesn't matter if I can save hers... I'd do anything... just to help.

Kyo was at the door, He looked up and closed his eyes. The door to the lair was forced open and people dressed in black ran in with guns.

"Don't move! We have weapons and aren't afraid to use them!" The woman in black said.

"Who are you and why are you uninvitedly entering our lair?!" The girls said together.

"I think I can answer those questions although I probably won't." A man was walking in from outside. The sun shone brightly so you could barely see him.

"Wait a second. I think I know that voice!" Yuki said covering his eyes.

"No..." Yume said.

"It can't be..." Izumi said.

"It can and it is girls. Sorry to burst your bubble." The man said. He stepped all the way in the room and the door closed allowing them to see him.

"Akito!" The three said together.

"That's right. I'm back and there's nothing you can do about it. Now where is Miss Tohru Honda I wonder?" Akito looked over at the door Kyo was in front of. It seemed like Kyo wasn't paying much attention to Akito. "Could she be in there, perhaps? Move away from that door now or you'll be shot to death Kyo."

I've got to do this now. I've got to get in there.

"Kyo? Did you hear me? Move or you will die!" Akito said.

I hear her singing, calling to me... such a beautiful voice...

"Kyo! Please get out of the way! He'll kill you without a second thought! Please Kyo!" Izumi cried.

"No Izumi. Let him die. If he chooses to defy me then let him. DO NOT HOLD BACK!!! READY!"

Can I really save her?

"AIM!!"

Its now or never...

"FIRE!!!"

BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!

TO BE CONTINUED