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To Die

PAPER TIME 1841 LOCATION RESIDENTIAL AREA

Yomiko ran straight, she at first was just running, but then something caught her attention.

It was faint but she could smell burning, paper burning so she followed the scent only to reach a house that was cover by a huge fence.

Then she heard thing being broken in the inside. Her curiosity got the best of her as she walked around the premised trying to find a way in. She then found a hole by then fence apparently it was barely made, for the cutters where left on the ground.

She grunted as she squeeze trough, she slowly walked taking a few note cards from the vest pocket and quietly crept towards the house. She peered in and quickly notices the building to be stacked by bookshelves; she could see book and tons of books which made her blushed. She quietly walked to the side of the house and found a window open. She decide to go in as she clumsily but quietly got in she, peered to both side seeing no one and decide to continue to the left of the hallway. The more she walked the more she saw books, then she looked down she had to re-adjust her glasses as she couldn't believe in what she has step on.

It was blood; she wanted to shriek but knew that it would cost her if she did. She followed the trail of crimson red. She had to squint as the hallway was getting less light from the outside. She reached a door and slowly opened it ready to throw her cards if attacked. She was not attacked but was welcome with the sight of a man tied up in a chair. His beard was covered in blood and it slowly drip on to his lap as he hung his head. Yomiko quickly went to aide the man.

"You mus leave" the man warned her.

"What on earth happened?" Yomiko asked as she cut the ropes in one swipe from her card.

"They attacked various men," the man coughed up more blood in the dark room Yomiko could distinctly see the bruises on the man's face. She gently wipes his face with the card she had made it soft as a cloth.

"Are you by any chance Bajar?" Yomiko asked.

The man's head snapped up," Mr. Joker sent you did he not?"

"Hai, yes he did. We came to retrieved the book" Yomiko said as she tentatively though of was to get out with out getting caught she knew she wasn't alone in the house.

"They asked for the book too, I denied knowing about the book, that why I'm in this stated they are in the main hall looking for it," Bajar stood shakily as he walked toward the end of the room and pounded on the wall, an opening pop out from the corner of the wall revealing the book. It was wrapped in a black cloth.

"Here miss you must take it and leave at once, you must keep this book safe, for I as my family line do believe in the legend of-"

Right then the door flew open to revealed a muscular man, Yomiko couldn't make out his feature, except for the fact he was way much taller than her and probably Drake, she could make out one feature though, he was smiling and she could see his pearly smile which sent shiver up her spine.

"Give it you old ass" he said raising his weapon it was a .357 magnum.

Yomiko froze she looked around trying to find an exist where she could escape or try to created a diversion for Bajar.

Suddenly Bajar threw the book at Yomiko who quickly caught it.

The broad man shot his weapon as he did, Bajar screamed, "RUN."

Yomiko ran towards the other door she saw, she quickly ran, she heard another shot and knew the old caretaker was dead.

As she ran down the hall she could hear screaming and shouting, suddenly as she turn around one corner she almost ran into another man.

"I zee her" he screamed Yomiko mind register as she quickly turned back and ran back to another hallway.

"I'll get the little vixen" he screamed as he pulled a shot gun and started to shoot wildly.

"Mines, you ass aimed the damn thing." The man with the smile came and knocked the rifle out of his hand.

Yomiko was panting she was lost and she was being chase by multiple enemies.

The one called Mines ran around to cut off Yomiko telling his other partners to stay clear.

He pulled out a grenade and pulled the pinned running with the thing then he threw it Yomiko only had a chance to see the thing as it blew up right in front of her and barely getting a chance to get a card out to protect her face.

She was neared a window and the explosion threw her backwards crashing trough the window landing outside.

"Well little lady, It's a damn shame to blow up such a fine specimen of a woman but I'm a greedy man and lust come last on my list." (A/N guys imagine this guy with a souther accent)

Yomiko could see Mines wearing a cowboy hat, he tipped his hat and then out of nowhere, it seems, he pulled out a missile launcher.

Yomiko's eyes grew wide with terror, she couldn't move, she had frozen unconsciously, her hand roamed around her vest until she found her last card. She threw it right as he was pulling the trigger. The card embedded into his hand, by his thumb and forefingers which cause him to aimed up and shoot.

"SHIT" he cursed as he dropped the weapon to see the card stuck halfway between his palm.

Just as she got up to run two men were coming out form where Mines was standing. Guns loaded and ready to kill, Yomiko could see the man with the smile and another one who had dark golden piercing eyes.

Yomiko tried to stand but the glass embedded on her back was killing her, the pain so agonizing thousand of points pushing and sending nerve racking pain trough her.

Just as the mean approached, bullets seem to fly out of nowhere. They both looked to see, when one of the got pierce by a bullet on their arm they retreated shooting wildly.

Yomiko by then had manage to get up and tried to walked away.

Mine had finally stop agonizing over the pain, when with his free left hand he pulled a .38 and started to walked towards Yomiko anger subsided his pain he ignore the flying bullets. Right when he reached about five feet from Yomiko a grenade landed in front of him. He quickly backed away covering his face. The thing blew up a smoke bomb. Soon smoke filled everything.

"Mines, we gotta go"

"Oh bull shit" Mines screamed and he ran back towards his copartners and decided to retreat.

Yomiko was coughing when suddenly she was lifted, by a pair of soft but strong arms.

"Nancy-san" Yomiko uttered she was wiped if it was the enemy she was too tired to fight but," Hai, Yomiko it's me" The soft were like a spell to Yomiko she minute she heard Nancy she drifted to the darkness of her mind.