as always, disclaimer: i don't own yyh or its characters.

Mia was momentarily stunned as when she turned around and saw the...thing...that had been following her (A/N: Mia was scared shitless). If it had just been a person following her, Mia's dad, a former police officer, had taught her enough self defense to buy her time to run away in such a case (which consisted of kicking it in the balls, if it had any). However, seeing as Mia's pursuer was not human in the least, she just stood there staring at it, her mouth open, producing the effect of making Mia look like a fish (A/N: teehee fishy!). It was large, covered in purple fur, had 3 horns sticking out of its head, and a rather mean expression on its face.

"I should run away." Mia thought. "In fact, I'd do that right now if i could feel my body enough to move it! FUCK!" Then, in a flash of help sent from the gods (it had actually just been Mia's stupid phase ending), Mia regained feeling in her body, turned on her heel, and ran as if a horde of chain saw-weilding clowns were chasing her (A/N: oooh... clowns... scary... and far too happy). If her gym teacher had seen Mia at that moment, chances are he would have beaten off the theoretical, maniacal clowns himself if it meant she would sign up for the track team.

It didn't matter that Mia was beating every high-school track record ever set at that moment, the large, furry demon, which also had claws (as if the friggin' horns weren't enough...) ,took off running at a really alarming speed. In fact, In about 10 seconds it had caught up with Mia and wheeled around in front of her, blocking her path. Mia turned to run in the opposite direction, but the monster grabbed her by her jacket and flung her effortlessy over its shoulder. Mia tried to fight it, pounding her fists against its back and head, but the thing, whatever it was, was waaaay too strong. It just turned its be-horned head, grunted at her while rolling its (red) eyes, and lumbered into the wooded area a little ways away. After 5 minutes, it stopped. The demon dropped her in a bush, where Mia just sat, open-mouthed, staring at the demon.

It wasn't that the demon was particularly beautiful or anything that made Mia stare at it, it was the fact that he had started to mutter strange sounds to himself in what Mia recognized as Japanese (her history class had just covered ancient Japanese history) and making motions in the air with his... err... hand-claw-paw-type-things. Suddenly and out of nowhere at all, a big, glowing, portal thingy appeared in thin air, making Mia gasp in surprise from her bush. The demon grunted again, sounding satisfied. It slung Mia over its shoulder again and started to go over to the portal. When Mia realized what it was going to do, she started screaming "What the HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING! ARE YOU NOT AWARE THAT THINGS THAT APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE GENERALLY AREN'T SAFE? YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US B-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The "both" had been cut short when the demon stepped into the portal, disregarding Mia's shouting. Both demon and girl plunged into a spinning, glowing, swirling, plummeting hole, one far more terrified that the other.

freckled: ok, chapter 2 done! except... nobody reviewed the first one! I'm feeling very sad... :'-( no reviews, no long chapters.