"More…" The creature whispered. Its voice crackled and was raspy; its hoarseness was apparent from even so much as a soft sound.

The girl beside me spoke. "M-more what?" My gripped tightened on her arm. Fight or flight.

The creature sucked in a small breath. Hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up. "MORE FOOD!" The creature hobbled forward at a faster rate of speed. It put its hand out and its boney fingers were shown. It took my frazzled mind a bit to realize its fingernails were elongated and sharpening.

"Run!" I screamed and pulled the girl along with me. "We need to move!"

We hurried out of the alley and into an empty street. Our situation wasn't good. There was no one around; no crowd to lose this thing in. There were hardly any large or abandoned buildings to hide in either. Our only hope was to run.

And I was good at running.

I let go of the girl's arm and continued running on my own. "How long?" I yelled back at her.

"How long what?!" She yelled back.

"How long until your quirk wears off?!" I looked back for the creature. It was slowly following like it was waiting for something. I turned back to see where I was going.

"Uhhh, I don't know! I little more than a minute I think!" A minute.

A single minute could be the difference between my life or death.

Suddenly, a thin, tan spike shot out and beside me. It punctured deeply into the ground and stayed. I looked back to see the creature. I expected him to be a decent ten meters back. Imagine my surprise when he was only about three meters from my heels.

"Crap!" I yelled. "It's gaining!"

I coarse voice shook the whole road. "FOOD!" It yelled. The psychotic voice still haunts my memories. The creature's nails kept rushing past us and trying to gain ground. There was nowhere to go until we came upon an intersection.

"Go left!" The girl yelled.

"Are you sure?" I yelled back.

"Yes! Now go while we still have ground on him!"

I darted to the left and continued my sprint. "Now where?" I yelled back.

"First alley on the right! Then hop into the cellar!"

"God, I hope you're right about this!" I went right into the alley. At the end of it was a trap-door of sorts. I flung the door open to find a ladder and a five-foot-wide tunnel into the ground. Without missing a beat, I hopped into the tunnel and grabbed the rungs of the ladder. I watched above as the girl came down too and locked the trap door. We didn't speak as we quickly descended down the poorly-lit tunnel. I could still hear our assailant banging on the door above.

We finally reached the bottom of the ladder in a meter by meter empty room. The wall opposite of the ladder was a reinforced metal door with a keypad by it.

"Will that door be enough to keep that thing out?" I asked. The first words to break our silence.

"It will be for as long as we need it to." She approached the keypad and started to punch in the numbers before looking back at me. "Do you mind?" I sighed and turned around as she put in the code. After four beeps and a click, I turned around. The girl opened the door and we walked into a short, three-meter hallway before we came upon another locked door. This one required three keys.

"A little tight with security, huh?"

She gave a little chuckle. "Hey, it's not my choice. But we prefer security rather than having heroes barging in on us when we don't want them to."

I nodded in approval as she unlocked the door with the last key. Then, I remember her words. "I'm sorry, what did you mean by 'we'?"

The girl swung open the door to reveal a large room. It was pretty spacious and well-lit with concrete walls. There was a living room area and a kitchen with other doors leading into different rooms and closets. The thing that surprised me the post was the three sets of eyes that were instantly focused on me.

"Hinata, help me deal with a guy outside. Itsuki, Aina, could you handle our new… guest? And get Michiro out of bed."

A girl with pink hair in pigtails—who I assumed was Aina—perked up. "Oh! Do I get to use BF?"

The girl that had followed me in glanced at me. "Yeah, that might be necessary."

A dark-haired boy got up and traveled with the girl back out into the hallway. Aina and a blonde-haired boy got up from where they were and started towards me.

Aina held her hands behind her back as if she was hiding something. "Hiya!" She said peppily. "I'm Aina! And the guy to my left is Itsuki!"

I began backing into a hallway. "Hey… where am I?"

"Nowhere important." Said Itsuki. His voice was young but grim.

"I-I don't want to cause any trouble."

"Then stay still." A gruff voice behind me said. I turned around to see who said it when I was face-to-face with an about fifteen-year-old with red hair. His dark eyes were cold and sent a chill down my spine. I backed away from him suddenly.

"Aina. Blind-fold her." Itsuki said. I whipped around to a dark cloth being placed over my eyes. As soon as I tried to take it off, someone pinned my arms against them. I started kicking and trying to get away. It was no use. All of them were much bigger than me, much stronger. I was eventually tied up to a support pillar of some sort.

"Let me go!" I yelled. "Fight me without a stupid mask on!"

The three conversed through my screams. Eventually, I heard Itsuki say. "Should we get chloroform to knock her out?" My heart sunk. Was this all a trap? The good part about chloroform, though, was that it would take five minutes to put me under. Acting could keep me conscious. Plus, chloroform had nasty side effects.

I then heard the red-haired man, who was most-likely Michiro say, "No, we'll choke her out, then get the extra ketamine to keep her under." No. In order to choke someone, you only need to do it for several seconds to keep someone out for thirty or forty seconds. In that time, they could inject my unconscious body with ketamine, an anesthetic that could last for over thirty minutes if they gave with a hundred-milligram dose. They could add more as they wanted too, which made my chances of escape slim to none.

"Got it! I'll grab the ketamine!" Aina said.

I heard footsteps coming toward me and Michiro's voice. "Itsuki, hold her down. She'll definitely try to resist."

All at once, I felt multiple pressures on my body. Itsuki held my legs down—my arms weren't a problem since they were already tied back. I felt Michiro's hands delicately put pressure onto my neck. I almost didn't realize he was trying to choke me out until he increased his pressure on my neck suddenly. I started to try and kick and get away. I thrashed my head around as much as possible. Michiro's hands still held firm and in a few seconds my consciousness faded. As I started to gain semi-consciousness, I felt a prick in my arm by my shoulder. Not long after that, I fell deeper into my sleep.