Chapter 2
The creature sank its fangs into Anna's arm. She felt a little woozy for a moment, then seemed to wake up again just in time to see the Thing bite Yoh's neck. He look surprised for a second, then his eyes misted over and he flopped unconscious onto the floor, two small pinpricks in his neck.
"Yoh! No!" she screamed. Pure anger washed over her and she grabbed the knife Yoh had been using earlier to steal slices of a cake she had made and threw it at the creature. It missed and landed with a thunk in the door. Startled, the strange beast flew back out of the window. Anna stood where she was, panting. Her cheeks were flushed red and all her anger had turned to sadness for Yoh. Was he going to live? She hoped with all her life he was. She summoned up the strength to call the hospital and within a few minutes Yoh was being lifted onto a stretcher and carried into the ambulance. Anna put her face in her hands and sobbed. The van seemed to disappear suddenly when she blinked. Annoyed, she got into her car and drove to the hospital.
She was sitting outside the operating theatre when Ren, Hao, Horo Horo and Chocolove burst in.
"WHERE IS YOH ASAKURA!" Hao screamed at a passing nurse. She looked shocked and told him she wasn't meant to tell him that. "DON'T GIVE ME THAT," Hao yelled at the unfortunate woman. "HE'S MY BROTHER! I DEMAND TO SEE HIM!" The nurse hurried away, worried, and Anna put her face into her hands and cried.
"Hey Hao, great job," Chocolove said. "You made Anna cry." Hao looked slightly embarrassed temporarily. Ren and Horo Horo went to sit next to Anna, who was now resorting to loud, end-of-the-world sobbing. Horo Horo pulled a hairy piece of chewing gum out of his pocket and offered it to Anna.
"I-I-I c-c-can't eat that!" she sobbed. "S-s-s-strawberry was Y-y-y-yoh's favourite flavour!"
"I didn't know YOU ate chewing gum," Ren said sarcastically. Horo Horo shrugged and put it into his mouth. "Ewwwwwwwwwww," everyone chorused.
About an hour later, a sweating doctor emerged from behind the dreaded doors that separated Anna from her beloved Yoh wearing a white coat and a disappointed expression. Anna gulped.
"Miss Kyouyama, we're extremely sorry. We did everything we could...but your fiancé is dead."
"No..." Anna whispered. "No," she said, louder, with more defiance. "He's not dead. He can't be dead! Please! Can't I see him one last time?" she pleaded. Tears like pearls spilled out of her eyes and rolled down her cheeks. The doctor shook his head sadly. Anna howled. Horo Horo just sat there, the look on his face pure shock. Ren muttered something to Anna and tried to pull her away, but she sat down on the floor and announced she was refusing to move, through muffled sobs. Hao started yelling again, demanding to see his brother and refusing to accept he was dead. Horo Horo spat out his chewing gum onto the floor and received dirty looks from a passing cleaner. Chocolove and Ren ended up having to pick anna up and bundle her back into the car, then drag Hao by the arms. On the way back to their homes Anna sat silently with her arms folded and refused to talk to anyone. Suddenly, the car door and seatbelt melted away and she fell out onto the road. A lorry came screaming by and very narrowly avoided squashing her. Anna got to her feet and began the long walk home. She was just turning a corner when the road seemed to fall away from under her and she was falling through nothing, the world around her nothing but blank whiteness. She noticed a black hole way below her and realised she was going to fall through it. She tried frantically to avoid it, but there was nothing to hold on to, nothing to stop her from falling into the hole.