"I believe in nothing - Not the end and not the start

I believe in nothing - Not the earth and not the stars

I believe in nothing - Not the day and not the dark

I believe in nothing - But the beating of our hearts

I believe in nothing - One hundred suns until we part

I believe in nothing - Not in satan, not in god

I believe in nothing - Not in peace and not in war

I believe in nothing: But the truth of who we are."

30 seconds to Mars: 100 suns


Translating progress is a bit slow, don't have much time and still prefer working on my original story than fanfics. But I'll finish translating BC just it is going to take some time. Here's another short chapter which one's ready for ages, I just had to submit...


Chapter 6

The moon was about to set, the horizon was red as a sign of the coming dawn. The stars only glimpsed and the landscape sat in penumbra.

Dan Nomura (boys #8) and Rena Bando (girls #1) were heading down the line from a small hill in a dirt road. They were surrounded by a forest with thin vegetation, so the visibility was very good for the two students but also for the others. That's why they walked carefully and looked around often.

As they reached the bottom of the hill, they caught sight of the silhouette of a building - probably the only building in the first game field. There weren't any other important places signed by the digital map however, so that was the warehouse they were seeking.

Rena got very tired from this all-night walking, she felt she had enough of it.

"Dan, let's have a short rest, please." she asked silently. She got a nod as an answer, then they sat down near the dirt road in the shielding of a large rock.

Rena pressed closely to Dan and asked:

"How's your wound?"

"Ah, never mind." he replied easily but his features showed otherwise.

"Hang on, we'll figure something out. If this is a training range or some shit like that, I'm sure we'll find a first aid place somewhere."

"Those fucking beasts!" Dan cursed, but shut up, because his wound was hurt so much.

So he was about to speak as less as he could unlike the custom. Dan closed his eyes and let Rena stroke his face, while he tried to call the events to mind from the beginning until this moment. The class was kidnapped and now they are set to fight one another. There is already two dead, like Ben Ugaki, who was in the triumvirate (Goushi Kakutama was the third). How much they fooled around in English class, during Sara Akamatsu's teaching...

Dan wasn't that sloppy type however,but he missed Ben very much and he would rush on that damn Moskvin with his bare hands by choice. Whose next shitty kidding was to send wolves after them. One of those animals bit him, when he and Rena were gain on by them. The rest - if Dan had heard right by the screams - began to be after Kirika Kido's team.

Dan and Rena were extremely lucky with that tension-bridge (like in Indiana Jones - the allied-made, brainwashing movie, which is in the black list in the Empire), so they could easily come across the abyss. But naturally, the wolves followed them and Rena had horror of height - and in top of all, the bridge was very unstable - it is a wonder, they got out of this alive. It was maybe the work of fate, that the bridge couldn't take all their weight and broke away in the hither side. Then the end of the bridge slumped like a piece of paper. It was a fortune, that the other side held on. The wolves fell down to the last man, but Dan clawed at the plank of the tension-bridge (he had the barb in the palm since that). He got Rena's arm with his other hand and as he usually spent a lot of time in gym, it was nothing to climb up to the ground in that way...

The boy could hardly imagine, how he managed to do all that without losing the presence of mind. Thinking back to these things after-wise, he wasn't certain he could survive the same adventure once again. The main thing, that they are alive at the moment, and this little wound doesn't stop him to hold out to the end and defend the girl, he loves at any cost.

Dan returned from his thought to reality. Rena was just put the orange scarf right in his ribs - that was the bandage in this needy situation. Every girl got one for the uniform and now it came in handy.

"I've just retightened it. It slackened." Rena said silently, then she broke in the voice. Tears sprang to her eyes.

Dan immediately took her hands then they fall on each others neck and they were cuddling for long.

"Why is it like this? Why is it suppose to be like this?" sounded Rena's explosion "why can't be everything like yesterday was? We were on the plane and...

She broke in the voice again.

"They should've known better! This trip mustn't have been organised! They had to expect this trap! They send us right to death! Fucking goddamn whores...!" she continued cursing, but it was not certain if it concerned for Moskvin, the soviets or the leaders of the EotRS. Mybe all of these.

Rena sounded again after a shorter period of time:

„I don't want to hurt anyone. Not but that I could ... This is not fair! ... I'm surely not going into this shitty game!"

„Neither do I." Dan replied.

Rena relieved by hearing her boyfriend's words. Dan used to have an aggressive temperament, she expected another answer.

„But if anybody attacks me, I won't moderate myself" he added „I will protect you at any cost! I will never retreat."

It gratified in Rena's heart, but it didn't last long. If they do not want to win and nobody to hurt how on earth could they get out of here alive? And if Dan fights back by an attack to defend themselves, he have to kill until all the "participants" will slowly gone. It's a vicious circle, no matter, how hard they try to escape, more and more will fall into this whole race, and the helplessness, the despair will take control over everyone's mind.

"What... what do you think would have happened if Moskvin didn't find Sonoko's book? What's then?"

"I don't think it'd be better." Dan replied after a short thinking "maybe we would have to be ransomed and by all daily delays someone would die in front of cameras, in TV. You know, as terrorists do."

"Yep." she breathed a sigh.

"And what sadist dick head this Moskvin is, who knows what he would have done with us. But in this way we still can figure something out... or we can try at least."

He got up from sitting with an easy pain.

"Well, it's time to move on. I don't want them to find us here. It isn't known, who's such a moron and is in the game."

"You're right!" she replied, but was still shocked because of the wolf attack.

Then she put an arm around Dan and helped him walk. They hardly left the shielding of the rock, the two students saw shadows moving near the warehouse. Four silhouettes. The lovers hurried back to their cover and started to watch them in silence. They could see those people and until dawn, they were safe in the dark from unwanted eyes.


Number of students: 34