Chapter 6

Reliving Memories

Hakuno-chan was…in the classroom? Wait, did she already transport back to her own world? No, that's impossible. Did BB do this? Another possibility, but highly unlikely. She remembered she was sleeping with Nero. But…somehow she got transported into her own world. And she found that she was alone. Looking around, she sprinted out of the classroom to see what was going on. The whole school was empty and the sun was setting. Where could everyone be? She ran through the halls, up the stairs and kept on running. She didn't know who to look for though.

But all she knew is that she must get out of here. She kept on running up the stairs until she got to the top floor and sprinted. However, the hallway seemed to be…endless this time. There was no exit and there were no classrooms present on this floor. How come? And the further she ran, the darker the halls became. She was panicking. She has got to find someone for help and get out of this place fast.

Just then, the whole world became completely dark. Until a spotlight has lit and Hakuno-chan's eyes widened at the sight of Sakura, on her knees with her head hung low.

"Sakura!" The brunette started running to help her, but she gasped when she saw a foot kick Sakura to the floor and the figure showed himself in the light. Shinji. He turned and gave an evil grin at Hakuno-chan, chuckling. "You! Get away from her, you monster!" She tried to punch him, but she got shoved away by him and he approached Sakura to grab her by the hair. He chuckled even more.

Hakuno-chan sat up and reached out a hand. "NO! Don't hurt her, please!"

Shinji didn't listen and lifted his step-sister up to her feet, only to then toss her to the floor again, making her cough. He must have beaten her before Hakuno-chan showed up and Sakura was too weak to move. The brunette could not reach her from where she was. Shinji chuckled once more as he approached the poor purplenette and takes out a knife. Hakuno-chan's eyes widened.

"Shinji! NO, PLEASE! DON'T KILL HER! NO!"

The evil step brother ignored her pleas and stabbed Sakura right in the heart. She went limp after a few seconds and tossed to the floor again. Hakuno-chan trembled and backed away on her rear as he went for her too. He raised his arm that held the knife and was about to kill her…

**Reality**

"NO!" Hakuno-chan jolts up from her bed, reaching a hand out. She then finds that she's in the cottage with Nero by her side. She pants heavily, putting a hand on her chest. "Wha…what was that dream…? Why did I dream about Shinji…? And Sakura…?"

"Mmmm…Praetor…?" Nero moans as she sits up and rubs her eye adorably.

"Ah…Saber…" Hakuno-chan sighs in relief.

"Something the matter, Praetor?"

"I just…had a weird dream…" the soft-spoken brunette says. "It was about Sh-Shinji….he was beating up Sakura to death…and I couldn't protect her."

Nero gasps. "Oh, shoot! Praetor…!"

"Is this what it's going to be like here?" Hakuno-chan hugs herself. "I won't be able to protect Sakura…from BB?"

"Hey, don't say that!" The Red Saber quickly puts her hands on her Master's shoulders. "We'll reach Sakura together! Didn't I tell you last night? We're a team! We will make it, no matter how much it takes! Just trust me on this!"

"Thank you, Saber," Hakuno-chan smiles weakly and nods. "Now then, let's get dressed and cook breakfast."

"Umu! I'm starving~!"

**Later**

After making a decent meal, everyone on Hakuno-chan's team enjoys it and all of them empty their plates with no problem. Hakuno-chan and Saber help wash and dry the dishes and put them on the drying rack. Everyone then gets ready to leave the cottage for good to walk down the golden path once again. The team walk together, with Hakuno-chan humming to herself, Tamamo and Nero sticking close to their master while Altera is walking behind them, arms crossed. The tanned woman looks at the soft-spoken brunette with concern. Sure everyone, including herself, wants to pitch in to try and reach Sakura, but are they really risking their lives just to do that? From what she can see, BB has several tricks up her sleeve. Even if she does reach BB, she might not let Hakuno-chan get her wish granted. If that's the case, then…

"Master," Altera calls, making the brunette stop for a moment to turn back.

"Hm? What is it, Altera?" Hakuno-chan says.

"If…if there's anything troubling you, you can always come to me," the tanned woman gestures toward herself. "I can help you in any way I can."

"Thanks, Altera," the brunette smiles. "Now let's keep moving."

"Right!" Everyone on her team says in unison.

**Later**

For what it seems like a few hours pass by, surprisingly, there are no tests in the middle of the path, except for some monsters that try to attack them. All three of them slay the monsters very easily. It is then that they find another cottage. Just in time for lunch. They enter the cottage and find some nice food to cook and eat. Everyone works together to put together a decent meal and put it on the table. They all say Grace and dig in. Thanks to Tamamo's excellent cooking skills, the food tastes superb and they give their praises to the fox girl.

It isn't long before Nero notices that Hakuno-chan is eating a bit slowly. "Praetor? Aren't you hungry?"

"O-oh, yes. Sorry, I'm a bit spacey today," she says as she eats a sushi.

Altera has already finished her food and turns toward the brunette. "Say, Master. I would like to know: why risk so much to reach BB? Don't you realize that she's a trickster? What if she doesn't grant your wish and plans to take over the world?"

"It may be a risk, but that's what I have to do," Hakuno-chan says. "No matter what, I'll protect Sakura. She needs me."

"We'll do whatever it takes to wake up Sakura," Nero says. "That's our goal."

Altera stands up and walks by her master's side. "Master, can you tell all of us about Sakura? Why it's so important to protect her with your life?"

Hakuno-chan looks down at her lap, fists clenched at the hem of her skirt. "Sakura's a dear friend to me since the beginning of high school. She's kind, gentle and willing to help others in need. I met her when she was having trouble with some books at the library. We helped each other organize the shelves, we talked a lot…and we became best friends. But…then I learned that her life at home wasn't so great when I met her brother. Or rather…step brother. He was the bane of Sakura's…now my own…existence. I can't even count how many times I protected her from him…from her running away to my place from time to time. But that alone resulted her into being abused more."

"That's terrible," Tamamo gasps.

"I can recall one time I actually had a fight with him…" Hakuno-chan says as she bites her lip. "It didn't go too well and Sakura was trying to stop us…"

**Flashback**

"Stop this right now!" Hakuno-chan stepped in front of a crying Sakura, who was hit pretty hard. "Haven't you had enough!?"

"Out of the way, Kishinami!" Shinji shouted. "That is none of your damn business!"

"It should be my business! How can you hurt a poor innocent girl like her!?"

"I can do whatever the hell I want!" Shinji fired back. "Sakura needs to be disciplined and it's my job as her older brother to do it!"

"You're the reason she's running away to my home!" Hakuno-chan pointed at him. "So don't blame her for all those things! It's all because of you!"

Shinji clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. "You….shut…the hell up…you B*TCH!" He slapped Hakuno-chan so hard, she tumbled to the floor.

"S-Sempai!" Sakura cried.

Hakuno-chan struggled to her feet and tried to tackle him, only to get grabbed and shoved down to the floor and get pinned down.

"You're so pathetic," he chuckled. "You're as weak as Sakura is~"

"Don't…talk about her like that!" Hakuno-chan shouts.

He grabbed her by the hair to lift her up off the floor. The brunette struggled but his grip on her hair prevented her to do anything. "Hahaha! Look at you! You want to protect her, but you're too weak! I'm on top, baby!"

Hakuno-chan gritted her teeth and tried to swing at him, only to get blocked by his arm. He threw her down again and punched her as retaliation.

"You wanna try that again, huh!?" He shouted and punched Hakuno-chan again. "Huh!? You wanna try that move again!?"

Before he could swing again, he gets grabbed by Sakura.

"Stop it! Both of you!" she cried, with tears streaming down her eyes. "I don't want any more fighting!"

"Out of the way, Sakura!" He shook his arm and shoved Sakura to the floor.

Hakuno-chan took this chance to tackle him down on the floor to wrestle him for a bit before getting kicked toward the wall. The two girls were seriously hurt and Shinji chuckled.

"Both of you are pathetic," he said. "You know what? This is boring the hell out of me. Do what you want. But know this: Sakura is mine and will be mine, you got it, Kishinami?"

He left with a laugh. Hakuno-chan managed to crawl toward her kouhai. "Sakura…Sakura, are you alright?"

The violet haired girl shed tears and plunged herself toward her senior. "Sempai….Sempai…I don't want this…! I don't want this anymore…! Nii-san is too scary!"

"Hey, there, there…I'm right here…" Hakuno-chan hugged the poor dear tightly. "You can stay with me tonight…okay?"

"Yes…I will! I'll stay with you…for as long as I want…!" She shed more tears. "Because…because Sempai is so kind to me…"

"Oh, Sakura…"

The violet haired girl sobbed her heart out, plunging herself on Hakuno-chan's chest again.

**End of Flashback**

"It was then that I promised myself to protect her with my life," Hakuno-chan says. "But…she only stayed with me for a few days until her parents wanted me to take her back. It was….rather a tough decision, but I let her go. Which I regretted. She got abused by Shinji again and things weren't getting better…until right now."

"Then….this BB character…" Altera says.

"Yeah, she told you earlier, right?" Hakuno-chan says. "Shinji was killed because of her and now that BB is around, there's nothing we can do but to reach her on our own. We must continue this little game of hers if we want to succeed."

"Umu~!" Nero stands up. "We're a team and if we're going to get through this, we must work together, no matter what~!"

"I'm with you on that one," Tamamo stands up as well. "We'll show BB-san what we're made of. We'll show her that nothing can stop us!"

"Most importantly," Altera says. "We have to protect Master with everything we got. BB may be strong, but together we are stronger."

"Umu~! I like the sound of that, Altera!" Nero says.

"Everyone…~!" Hakuno-chan looks back and forth at her three servants. She stands up and holds out her palm. "Okay! Saber, Caster, Altera! This is for Sakura! We will go and save her!"

"Yeah!" Her three servants put their palms on their Master's.

"FOR SAKURA!" All of them cheer in unison.

**Meanwhile**

BB grits her teeth as she watches them from her large computer screen, clenching her wand.

"Grrrr…! They're getting close! I can feel it!" she growls. "Even if I throw any servant at them, it won't be enough. They're too strong!" She stands up abruptly, slamming her hands on the table. "Well…I will create my own servants that will surely destroy them."

She waves her wand to change the room into a lab. There is a chair with wires attached to a big silo like machine. She walks toward the computer next to the machine and types some stuff on there. She puts in a picture of herself and copies and pastes it to another white box. She makes some modifications here and there, typing in some stuff and then gives a few clicks. She concentrates while clicking and typing everything until she is certain that the modifications she did is perfect. She then straps herself on to the chair, presses the buttons on the arm rest and a helmet-like machine drops on top of her head.

"Alright," she says. "It's time to create my very own servants…who are far stronger than Sempai's own put together! Let's begin!" With a press of a button, electricity flows through the wires and onto the machine.

It whirs and the inside glows very brightly. BB watches in delight as it glows brighter and brighter until steam starts to appear. The flash fades out and the double doors open, steam coming out. Just then…a giant claw reaches out and slams it down on the floor. Then another pops up and slams it on the ground as well. A figure comes out of the steam. That person looks like Sakura, only with much, MUCH bigger breasts and wearing a black tight top, short pink skirt, black thigh high stockings and pink ankle boots.

There is some clinking from the second person. Metal stilts step out and the other person reveals herself. She's just like Sakura as well, only she's flat chested and wearing a black top with very long sleeves and wearing a black thong.

BB unstraps herself and steps toward her new creations. "Welcome, my fellow…daughters~" She points her wand toward the huge breasted Sakura-face. "You are now known as…..Passionlip…the Alter Ego….of Love and Hate." She turns to the flat chested one. "And your name shall be… Meltryllis…the Alter Ego of Passion and Joy."

"D-d-d-daughters….? Whaaaaa?" the huge breasted Sakura face sounds very docile and timid.

"Hmph. How are we your daughters?" the flat chested one sounds more confident, like BB.

"I'm your creator," BB gestures toward herself with a hand on her hip. "I'm your 'Mother' so to speak. So listen up…and listen well." She holds up a holo screen of Hakuno-chan and her servants. "You see these people? These three servants…are your targets. Leave Sempai alone though. You don't want to kill her just yet. Go for her servants and annihilate them. You understand…?"

The two Sakura faces exchange looks. It's a simple task, yet they still wonder why they are here in the first place. However, since BB told them that she was their creator, they figured they have to obey her every command.

"We'll do as you wish….Mother…" Melttryllis says.

"Y-y-yes…we'll kill them….f-for you…" Passionlip adds.

"That's the spirit. You two are such good daughters already~" BB says and laughs her heart out. "NOTHING will stand in my way now! Hahahahaha!"

A/N: I don't want to drag this on too long? I mean, I'm going to aim for 10 chapters at most. Because there are other things i have in mind that I want to write in there. So, please be patient for the next chapter.

Have a nice day.