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any OC's that I put in here. Enjoy chapter 3!

April 14, 2011

Forecast… Rain all day

On my way to school I was still freaking out over the previous night. Now I was looking over my shoulder to make sure that Bloody Mary wasn't following me! After last night I was scared that Slenderman would jump out of my shadow. Still highly unlikely, but when you witness something like the Midnight Channel for the first time, you are FREAKING OUT for some time. It also didn't help that I had trouble sleeping after the events of last night; the world could have been a game or story for all I knew now!

Anyway back on track here; so as I was yawning I bumped into someone, not enough to hurt, but enough to make us bounce back a few steps. I also dropped my umbrella; the rain hitting was coming down hard today. "Crap, sorry! Huh, oh! Hey Yu!"

Yu looked back at me as I recollected my umbrella and smiled. "Morning, hey did you-"

"OH THAT GOD I'M NOT CRAZY!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. "What the fuck was that man, dude now I'm scared that Bloody Mary is gonna grab me from around any corner!"

"I still think you're safe form that one," Yu smirked at me. "Still I was surprised that actually worked, but there was something else I need to tell you abo-"

Yu was interrupted a familiar person running up to us and hiding under my umbrella with me. Chie's face turned red as she had to stand incredibly close to me. "Sorry, I was running late! Do you mind if I walk with you guys for now?"

My face was also turning a little red. "Sure, but don't you think people will make assumptions?"

"Who cares," Chie sighed, she really didn't want to be wet all day at school. "It's a down pour out! Though I did see this kung-fu movie where they used an umbrella to pull off some sweet moves…"

"You broke the umbrella," I sighed, but smiled. So what, I wasn't the only weird person in the house! It was a good feeling knowing that. "Didn't you?"

"N-not on purpose!" Yu and me started to laugh at her, well with her. "Really! I just wanted to try out a few of the moves!"

"It's fine Chie," I looked started walking with her trying to keep up with my pace. "When I was little I loved Star Wars to the point I pretended I had a light saber, I actually got pretty good with two. Not that's important now, but still!"

"Wait," Chie looked at me with glee in her expression. "You did the same thing I do!"

"When I was five," I grinned evilly at her and the whispered in her ear. "I still do it sometimes though."

Chie smiled brightly at me as all three of us walked to school, I almost forgot about the Midnight Channel completely, until Chie started talking… "By the way… did you see it?"

"Thank god!" Yu and me both sighed with relief. "Another person to guaranty my sanity… Wait! Too late!"

"Aha," The glee in Chie's face had since turned into shock and wonder. "So you guys both saw it! So, what did you guys see? The person it showed for me… um…"

"Who did you see?" I once again showed my evil grin. "It wasn't one of us was it?"

"NO!" Chie sighed. "Never mind. I'll save it for when Yosuke is with us. Let's keep going."

We kept walking to school for a bit, there was a very thick tension now hanging over all of us. I started humming a tone for a bit, because, I could not stand silence, even with the rain falling I thought it was so freaking awkward! GAH, I wanted someone to say something DAMNIT! Finally Chie answered my prays. "Oh… U-uhh… I-it's kinda awkward to only bring this up now, but… we're pretty close here…"

"So," I sighed, but still I was kinda interested in what she had to say. "I kinda wanna know what you saw now!"

"I-I'll tell you later." I shrugged, I could wait, and besides she seemed upset about it. She sighed, I didn't want force her to talk about it. "Am I worrying too much?"

"I don't think so," I looked a head as we kept walking to school. "I mean we just saw something, which scared the crap out of me, the dude who did Bloody Mary! It's okay to worry about this."

Yu nodded in agreement, Chie smiled brightly at us again. "Thanks guys, I-I'll keep going with you guys anyway. Alright, let's go."

Time Change: Early Morning to Morning

I was so confused in the class today, first, no King Moron; HELL YEAH! But I didn't know that the teachers switched rooms and not the other way around. Second, what the hell was up with the history teacher!? She was in a head dress that you would have seen Cleo Petra wear, she help a tool of a pharaoh too. I heard the words coming out of her mouth, just not what they meant, only because it was so weird! I just sat there with my mouth gawked, I didn't even try to put my i-pod in, Chie noticed this and poked my shoulder to gain my attention. "That's Ms. Kimiko Sofue, she always dresses like this."

"Wait always!?" I just shook my head in disbelief, man, if my dad saw her; I would be back in the states in no time. Until he meets King Moron, god never let that happen. "Well now that I know a little more, what the hell is she talking about?"

"Something about rivers and civiliations." Chie winced, I realized, she had no idea what was happening.

"Mr. Richards," I heard my name being called and I quickly looked at the teacher. "Please stand up. The western calendar is based on Anno Domini, the traditionally believed year of Jesus Christ's birth. What is the year before 1 AD called?"

My jaw dropped at how easy the question was, how was, everyone should have already known this. It was grade school easy; well it was for someone who's for favorite childhood movie was Walking with Dinosaurs! "One BC, of course."

"Ah," Ms. Sofue smiled gently as the answer left my mouth, already I liked her more than King Moron! "You seem to have a good understanding of this Mr. Richards."

I sat down and smiled, until Yosuke leaned forward and whispered in my ear. "How did you know that, I thought it was zero AD."

"Jesus Christ Yosuke!" I whispered just loud enough for only him and Chie to hear. "I learned that when I was in grade school!"

"Holy crap!" Yosuke's voice was layered with surprise. "How?"

"I watched a lot of documentaries," It was half-truth; the only one I ever watched was Walking with Dinosaurs. "Now shut up so we don't get in trouble!"

"Wait what type of documentaries?"

"Goddamnit Yosuke!"

Time Change: Morning to After School

"What's up with the body being hung upside-down?" I was really getting tired of hearing dead body that, murder this! Come on people, I know that it is horrible that someone died, but god! They made it seem like every one famous in the world of movies had gathered into a room and gassed! Even though celebrity gossip just pissed me off more than this! "That's so freaky!"

"Gah," I took my glasses off and once again started hitting my head against my desk again. "Shit up, shit up, shut up!"

"Is it supposed to be like," Of course the two girls to my right just wouldn't shut up about the murder or accident or whatever the hell it was! "Mimicking an execution? It's messed up…"

"There are not shutting up!" I kept banging my head against my desk until I heard a familiar voice from behind me.

"Y-yo, Kreed. Um…" It was Yosuke, and like in class today, he sound like he had no idea what was going on. Well it might be normal for him who knew?

"Let me guess you say saw it too?" I quickly spoke up as a removed my head from its spot on the desk and put my glass back on. Yosuke cringed back in fear for a moment, before looking at the ground and nodding his head confirming my guess as fact. "Welcome to the club of most likely mentally insane people who saw the rumored Midnight Channel last night; current members including you are now four. For seeing the Midnight Channel, you get a free member ship pass to solitary confinement."

"Any membership rewards?" Yu played along with my brightly developed joke, which I had made up on the spot.

"Yeah," I laughed as Yu played along with my joke. "Free therapy after four to five years!"

"Sign me up!" Even Yosuke chuckled at our combined efforts to make the joke as long as possible!

"Yosuke," Enter Chie stage right and again everyone was crowding around my desk! SERIOUSLY CLAUSTORPHOBIA! I wouldn't have been surprised if I had it by this point. "Did you hear the rumor?"

"NO!" I point my index finger at Chie. "No more rumors! I just lost ten years off my life because of the last one!"

"Wha-" Chie gave me the weirdest look I have ever seen since I- well never mind King Moron's teeth beat this. "Oh, oh! Well this isn't anything like that! The rumor is that it was Saki who found the announcers body!"

Yosuke once again looked towards the ground. "I wonder if that's why she looked so down… She doesn't seem to be at school today either."

"Well," I closed my eyes and wrapped my hand around my chin to give me the appearance of deep thought. "If I personally found a dead body, I would one freak out, two run to the cops, and three, not show my face until the whole ordeal is settled for fear of the mafia, or murderer who had killed the person."

Just before anyone could react to my joke, well Yosuke seemed to take it a little personal; so thank you Yukiko for getting up to leave once again, Chie of course Chie took note of. "Huh? Hey Yukiko, are you helping out at the inn today too?"

"Things are really out of hand right now…" Yukiko sighed as she looked at Chie with sad eyes. Holy crap, I mean I thought it was stressful when I had to help around my house, but Yukiko had to help visitors every night! God I would have been crazy by now, well crazier than I am now. Still, you gotta do what you gotta do to help. "I'm sorry."

"Is it just me, or does Yukiko-san seem way stressed out today?" Oh Yosuke, so oblivious to the world around you. It almost hurt me physically.

"I guess they're running her ragged…" Chie too!? God, this was the point where I once again removed my glasses and started to repeatedly slam my into the desk… AGAIN!

"Ladies and gentlemen, my friends!" I sighed as I stopped damaging my brain cells. "Can we get on a relative topic that has to do with all of us being out of our fucking minds!?"

"What?" Yosuke and Chie looked at like I was crazy, which was really close, but still.

"Midnight Channel ring a bell?" I sighed leaning my head back far enough I could see over Yosuke's desk. "Cause I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather not be mentally insane, I would not be able to stand how quiet those mental institutes are."

"Oh! I was just about to ask you guys about that!" Chie quickly turned so she could she all three of us. "So, did you see… it…. Last night?"

Yosuke was so hesitant to answer the question; I almost thought that he saw Saki on the Midnight Channel. Yet like Chie said yesterday, "he wishes!"

"Uh, well…. What about you?"

"I did! I seriously saw a girl!" My head shot straight up at what Chie just said. I thought I was hearing things for second, what the fuck kind of fucked up thing was the Midnight Channel? God, I was scared to know the answer, but still who gave a fuck, the conversation just got interesting! "But… my soulmate's a girl? What's that supposed to mean?"

I couldn't help it at this point; I burst out laughing, I was laughing so hard that you think that I had gotten front row seats to a comedian and he had just told us the greatest joke in the world! "I-I-I'm s-s-sorry, but that i-i-is pret-t-tty obvious to me!"

That comment of course got me a one way ticket for a kick to the shin. GOD I KNEW SHE HAD ONE HELL OF A KICK! "Son of a fucking BITCH! God that hurt!"

"You deserve it! Gosh, still I couldn't quite tell who it was, but it was a girl for sure… Her hair was brown, about shoulder length. She was wearing our school uniform, and…" Yosuke quickly interrupted Chie was surprise and shock in his voice, hell I was shocked, did we all see the same thing.

"Hey… I think that's the same person I saw. I couldn't make out that much detail, thought. The image I saw was much blurrier…"

I sighed and raised my hand. "Everyone who saw that raise their hands, all four of us good! Guess what guys, we all get to share!"

"W-what!?" Chie jumped back after hearing my comment and kicked my other shin. Damnit this girl was going to kill me one bone at a time. Yu suddenly looked nervous now, what was he worried he was gonna get the galactic punt from Chie too?

"Um," Yu spoke up now, I thought it was a god damned miracle that he was talking without someone asking him something first! "There was a little more in my case."

All three of us stared at Yu for a moment. "What do you mean?"

"W-well, I heard this weird voice for a moment, I can't really remember what it said, but after it stopped talking my TV was turned off. So I tapped the screen and it shimmered for a second; it kinda scared me, but I stuck my whole hand into my TV and it started to suck me in! It would have too, if not for my TV being too small…"

We all looked at Yu like he was on drugs. That was the weirdest thing I have ever heard before in my entire life! Yosuke and Chie did not believe him for a second, yet logic said that Yu was insane, so I went against logic. Yosuke spoke his mind first. "Weird voices aside, what was that about getting sucked into your TV…? Were you that tired last night? You must've just fallen asleep in front of your TV."

"What?" Yu was absolutely shocked that Yosuke didn't believe him! "No, I woke Nanako up with the noise I made!"

Now Chie added her two cents to the side of you logic. "That'd be one interesting dream, though. I like the part where you got stuck 'cause your TV was too small. That's pretty realistic."

Yu through his hands up as thought to say 'I give up!' Yet I couldn't let my best friend so far just suffer. "I believe him."

All three of them looked at me with shock, Yosuke just looked dumbfounded. "W-what!? There is no way- What makes you even think that story could be true!?"

"Because logic says it can't be."

"It sounds like something from a Sci-fi movie!"

"Exactly!" I pointed my finger straight up into the air. "And fact is stranger than fiction my ignorant friend Yosuke!"

Everyone just looked at me still, I just shrugged and left it alone after that. Chie shook her head and suddenly looked like she just found out the meaning of life, which I personally thought was… you know what never mind, we'll get to that later. "Ohhh, this reminds me. Our family's been talking about buying a bigger TV."

"Oh yeah?" Yosuke had made the transformation into a sales man at that point. The two had given up on trying to make sense of Yu's story now. "Well flatscreen TVs are definitely in these days. Wanna go check 'em out on the way back? We're beefing up our electronics department this month."

I jumped to my feet and headed for the door. Chie looked worried for a moment. "H-hey where are you going?"

"To the Junes electronics department, you guys coming or not?"

Junes

"Wow, this is huge! And… Holy crap, it's expensive! Who buys something like this?"

We were all in front of the most expensive TV I have ever seen in my life, then again it was in yen, but still way too much for what my parents would let me buy! Yosuke was showing us all the TVs Junes had in stock and Chie freaked out when she saw the prices more than at the sizes! Yosuke still being none the wiser just shrugged. "I dunno… Rich folks?"

"Nooooo," I slathered on the sarcasm. "I thought it was homeless people!"

"Hey," Yosuke started to get irritated with my heavy sarcasm now. "Don't get snippy with me man! Honestly though, not many people shop for TVs here. That's why we don't have clerks around."

"Huh," Chie seemed kinda seemed disappointed by the fact that she couldn't afford any of the TVs. "Not worth trying, well at least looking's free!"

I just shrugged, I kinda wanted Yu just to jump into the TV and disappear through the screen, just too show logic that it was still wrong! Yet he just stood there looking at the TVs with Yosuke and Chie. It wasn't that I wasn't having any fun, I just wanted to see if I was right and that if Yu was telling the truth. After all… he seemed to be a more, um… reliable source of information than Chie. Not that I was insulting her, o god no! Just, I still couldn't believe that she didn't try out the Midnight Channel before telling us about it! Anyway, Yosuke and Chie looked at each other and walked up to the flatscreen that was smack dab in the middle of the wall, and started touching the screen. God now they were just insulting Yu! Yosuke put his two cents in the "insulting Yu Narukami machine first. "Nope, can't get in. Figures."

Chie chuckled slightly. "This proves it. It was all just a dream."

I just sighed and pulled out my i-pod flipping through all of my songs. I really wasn't in the mood to choose from over four hundred some songs, so I just put the thing on random as Yosuke finished with his turn using the "insult Yu Narukami" machine. "Besides, these flatscreen TVs are so thin you'd just end up on the other side…"

With that my i-pod started blasting Skrillex in my ears so I really couldn't hear the next few sentences. Yosuke and Chie walked over to another TV, probably so she could find a cheap model. Yu just stood there staring at the TV for a good minute or two. Finally he walked up to the screen and slowly reached his hand out to the screen, was watching him with curiosity, I mean what if he really did start going into the- too late to think about it! Yu stuck his hand onto the screen and for a second it did nothing, but then the TV gave way as his hand phased into the screen. My jaw and i-pod dropped, the earbuds being pulled out. I was so shocked that it really worked, then it hit me. "TAKE THAT LOGIC!"

I screamed at the top of my lungs making Chie and Yosuke look over at us, yet before everything got crazy, I grabbed my i-pod off the ground. "I-is his arm… in the TV…?"

"Whoa…" Now they believe him, yet I was too busy doing the dumbest looking dance you can image behind Yu, I was way too happy that I was right! "Uhhh… Is that some kinda… new model? L-like with a new function?"

"Hell no!" They both ran over to Yu as I was still making an ass of myself, but I quickly snapped out of it, because, well my best friend had a hand sticking out of a TV, so of course I ran to his aid for this. Well I guess aid isn't the right word, but still! Chie was the first to express her new found confusion to Yu.

"You gotta be kidding me… Did you really stick your hand through the screen?"

Then Yosuke. "Oh man… This is for real… That's some magic trick, man! So how's it work huh!? What's the magician's secret!?" Yu just shrugged at Yosuke, which freaked him out even more.

I had a thought, but in this state of mind my thoughts didn't stay thoughts long. "If he can fit his whole hand, maybe he can fit even more in?"

Yeah, everything that happened next was kinda my fault with that one sentence, god I was a dumbass! Um… don't quote me on that! Anyway! Yu pulled his arm out, much to our relief only to climb on the display stand and stick his entire head into the TV, much to our immediate fear! "DUDE I WAS JOKING!"

"There's an empty space inside…" Yu spoke threw the TV, again to our immediate fear! Yosuke winced back at the comment thought.

"Wh-what do you mean," Yosuke was freaking out more than me and Chie at this point. "'Inside!?'"

"Well what the hell do you think he means dumbass!" I couldn't control the words coming out of my mouth now.

"It seems very spacious in here…" At this point I gave up on all hope, I couldn't stand it anymore.

"That's it!" I turned to Yosuke and Chie. "Grab 'im! We are gonna pull this idiot out of the damn TV before he breaks it, and we all end up paying for it!"

"Holy crap…" Yosuke started hoping from foot to foot like he was going to pi- "I-I think this is all too much for my bladder…"

That, that is what it looked like he was going to do! Chie was very much disgusted by Yosuke to even try and grab one of Yu's legs, so I igorned them for a moment and grabbed Yu by his torso. Yet for some unknown reason, and just my damned luck! He wouldn't budge! "What the-? Are you gonna pee yourpants!?"

"No," I was irriated that everyone forgot about Yu for the time being. "He's gonna vomit rainbows with a pot of gold coming out of his ass, Chie JUST HELP FOR NOW!"

Chie shook her head and turned to see me pulling at Yu. "Oh crap!" She started to help me pull at his torso. Yosuke had run off to relieve himself; only to run back five fucking seconds later!

"Shit! Customers!" Me and Chie both snapped our heads at Yosuke now. This was the worst case scenario! Unless if we could pass it off as a 3D TV, which was unlikely… "They're coming!"

"What!?" Chie let go of Yu at this exact moment to freak out even more. Yet how the hell was I this calm you ask? I honestly have no fucking clue, that's how. "But we've got a guy half stuck in the TV here!"

Both of them were at their breaking points now, Yosuke and Chie started running around a small area near us. "CALM DOWN AND HELP ME HERE!"

They both looked at me and ran to help Yu out of the TV, only to run into each other and knock all four of us into the TV!

All of us yelled and screamed as we fell through a weird vortex that looked like the outline of spinning TV frames, it felt like minutes before we finally saw the ground. There was a ruff landing for all of us. Yet I landed on my feet only to twist my ankle in a must unnatural fashion and fall straight into a metal bar. "FUUUUCK!"

"Ow!" I heard Yosuke, but was having trouble seeing. I reached up to my face to find that I head lost my glasses in the fall not only that, but I could back out a thick fog covering the area, giving it a yellowish tint. "I landed on my wallet."

"What is this place?" Chie voiced her confusion just before I got the chance to voice mine. "Is there a place like this in Junes?"

"Hell no it isn't!" Yosuke responded to the question quite calmly. "I mean we fell through a TV! Actually what is going on here?"

I could hear the three of them start shuffling around. I tried to get to my feet only to fall straight to the ground after feeling a great amount of pain in my head, chest, and right ankle. "GOD DAMNIT THAT HURTS!"

Chie quickly spun on her feet to see me lying on the ground withering in pain. "Kreed!"

She ran to my side quickly turning me onto my back, yet trying to be as gentle as possible. "Are you okay!?"

"Other than I think I twisted my ankle and the ringing in my skull?" I smiled trying to make a joke out of my pain; yet trying to laugh hurt my chest and skull. "I'm doing just fine! Give me a few minutes and I should be able to walk again. By the way, has anyone seen my glasses?"

Yosuke started to walk over to me, only to hear the breaking and crunching of glass under if foot. "Yosuke?"

"Yeah Kreed."

"Was that my glasses?"

"Y-yeah."

"MEDICAL BILLS, PAIN KILLERS, PLUS NEW GLASS NOW!"

Chie started to shake a little as she sat next to me, so I tried to sit up, which thank god; I could still do! "So… uh… we're still alive… Right?"

Yu looked around and then looked at all three of us. "Are you guys alright?"

Yosuke nodded to confirm he was fine for the time being. Chie followed in suit, yet I laughed a little feeling the pain. "Well I'm near sighted and without any glasses and I twisted my ankle! But yeah, everyone is still alive."

"Whoa!?" Yosuke suddenly stepped off of my broken glasses as he looked around him.

"Wh-what now!?" Chie sounded like she was on the verge of tears. "Did you wet your pants!?"

"No, stupid!" Yosuke retaliated pretty violently to Chie after her comment. Then again, we were inside a TV, not many people, would blame him. Yet I was not one of those people. "Look around!"

"Dude!" I couldn't see to begin with, this was just insulting, but still! "Don't yell at her, she was just asking a question and trying to lighten the mood!"

"Y-you're right," Yosuke sighed. "Still it looks like some sort of TV studio in here. What is with all this weird fog too?"

"Thanks man," I rolled my eyes. "No sympathy for the blind, I see how it is!"

Chie looked at me with concern in her eyes. "A- are you sure you're alright?"

I just smiled at her, I knew she was even more scared then I was at this moment, so I tried to calm her fears. "Trust me! Is there any reason for a guy like me to lie to you?"

Her look of fear and concern did not subside. "Yes."

"Wow," I tried my best to look offended. "Tuff crowd today."

Yu turned to Yosuke to voice a concern on his mind. "There isn't a place like this in Inaba is there?"

"Hell no…" Yosuke took another look around. "But man… This place is huge…"

Chie turned to Yu, still sitting near me in case something happened. What was the worst that could have happened? I spontaneously combust? Last time I checked that was impossible, but then again, so was falling inside a TV into another world. "What're we gonna do…?"

"Look for a way out!" Yu answered Chie without missing a beat.

Chie nodded for a moment. "G-good idea!"

"Problem," I raised my hand now, and everyone looked at me. "We came from the direction of up."

Everyone knew I was right, they just wanted to get out of here, well so did I; I got a sick feeling starting to develop in the pit of my stomach, I thought it was dread, but I kept a brave face for Chie. Yet she was the first person to freak out now. "H-he's right! I don't see a way in… or out!"

"What? That can't be right! H-how could that be!?" Yosuke started to yell now. Now Chie started going after Yosuke in retaliation.

"I don't know!" Chie's voice sounded strong on top, but I heard the slightest quivering in her voice as she shot to her feet to yell at Yosuke. "Don't ask me! I can't take this anymore!" That's when she broke down, I hated seeing anyone like this, I was at that point way too many times. "I wanna go home!"

She only succeed in pissing Yosuke off by trying to be brave and failing. "Okay… so how!?"

Both Yu and me finally got pissed for them getting pissed at each other. Yet I beat him to the punch. "Yosuke! Shut the hell up and calm down, Chie! It will be fine, maybe there's a door that leads out of here. Let's go look for it."

I tried to stand up again only to grunt in pain and quickly land back on my ass. "Or you guys go look and come back to get me."

Everyone took my advice to heart, yet Chie looked at me with even more concern than before. She bent down and put her head under my right arm. My face became bright red very fast. "W-w-w-what are you doing!?"

"Trying to help you!" Chie's voice was still quivering though. "I'm not leaving you behind here!"

God I was embarrassed now, not because it was a bad thing, just it was a little awkward; all I did was twist my ankle. Yet here Chie was trying to help poor old injured me. So I let her lift me up off the ground.

"Thanks…"

"If there's no exit," Yosuke sounded calm again, thank the fucking lord! "Then where, screwed, so let's look for a way out."

We all nodded in agreement and set off in a random direction. I was limping for the whole time we walked, which was at least an hour or so, I was always bad at telling time. Finally the scenery started to change; well that's what everyone told me at least, in the fog I could only make out basic shapes. Finally Chie spoke up about the surroundings me squinting to even make out Yosuke and Yu in front of me. "What is this place…? It feels different from where we were before…"

"It looks like we're in some kinda building, but… Damn." I could hear Yosuke's voice now. "This fog's so thick, I can hardly see."

"Can we stop saying see please?" I sighed, I hated not being able to see anything, yet the only reason I wore glasses instead of contacts was because the glasses helped keep my beanie on my head, which, for some reason stayed on during the fall and the hour walk! I loved that hat!

"S-sorry."

"Are you sure we're not wandering farther away?" Chie voiced her concern now. Yu turned back and smiled at us. How could I tell, well basic shapes were cake to make out.

"If we are," Yu wasn't about to say something helpful. "We'll just walk back."

"Not helping Yu!" I sighed as I once again tried to place my foot down so Chie didn't have to carry me. This time I didn't hurt as much, so that was a good thing! "Hey, Chie I can at least limp from now on, so um… you can let go if you want…"

"Sorry."

I did almost trip after a few steps; Chie was able to catch me, before I hit the ground. "Maybe you should stay close to me." I looked her right in her eyes for a few seconds, before looking away, I had no idea why my cheeks where getting red. Yet that is also when I noticed Yu and Yosuke where already gone. "Crap!"

I limped as fast as I could, which surprisingly was like a light sprint for me, still… OKAY! Focus on this part, this is an important part! You paying attention? Good!

As we entered the room the first thing I noticed was a chair and something hanging down from the ceiling. I didn't want to know what the hell they were, nor want to! I heard the sound of a phone being closed. "No service. What a surprise…"

"Can't you guys slow down a little?" Chie complained to the guys as squinted to make out some posters that had the faces cut out. "It's hard enough to see where you're going… Huh? What the..!? It's a dead end! There's no exit!"

"Yet you don't notice the faceless posters?" I spoke loudly so that everyone would notice them, if they haven't already. I mean they were kinda hard to miss. "Or the chair and rope thing, which is never a good combo!"

"This is not good!" Yu whispered to himself, yet it was so fucking QUIET in this world that it was starting to drive me nuts!

"Aargh!" Yosuke ran past me at to the walls, I had no idea what he was doing until I heard to the zipper. OH! FUCK NO! "I can't hold it any longer…"

"DUDE!" I yelled at Yosuke for the pure fact of he was going to piss in public. "FUCK NO! HOLD IT LONGER!"

"Not cool!" Yu shook his head in disappointment at Yosuke. "This is someone's room!"

"Yosuke that is disgusting!" Chie shook her head as well.

"But I gotta let it out before I piss my pants! T-turn around! I can't go if everyone's watching!"

"Not like we want to!" I turned my head away from Yosuke at that moment.

"Gah! I can't do it! It's all your fault if my bladder bursts!"

Chie wanted to barf at this point. "Like we care! C'mon… Let's go back to where we came from and look somewhere else for an exit…"

"Thank Chie!" I threw my hands up into the air. "At least she can stay on track for more than five fucking seconds!"

I limped out of the room to hear Yosuke say something from behind me. "Hey… I think I've seen that poster before…"

"LET'S MOVE!" I yelled at Yosuke so we could all leave. Once again it took about an hour to get back to the, well I guess it was an entrance. We were all exhausted at this point and I felt like I was about to barf up everything I had ever eaten. Chie moaned a bit in pain. "Hey I'm not feeling so good."

"Raise your head if you feel sick," I called out to my friends, all three of them and me raised our hands. "Great! Now we're gonna vomit! WHERE IS THAT DAMNED EXIT!"

That's when we all noticed something nearby us. I could make out a shape of an oval, or was it an egg… I had no clue at this point, nor did I care. Yosuke voiced his fear for a moment. "There's something over there!" Yosuke, Yu, and Chie winced in fear as the thing walked towards us; making a squeaking sound as it walked. From the fog came a very colorful bear mascot. Chie apparently could not tell it was supposed to be a bear though.

"What is this thing? A monkey? A bear…?"

Yosuke soon followed in Chie's confusion. "What in the world…?"

"T-that's what I want to know… Who are you guys!?" Thing growled at Chie, I chuckled at its voice. Wait… IT COULD TALK!?

"Holyshitholyshitholyshit!" I was surprised I didn't slip up and start speaking English again. Seriously, this was so fucked up on so many levels! "IT CAN TALK!?"

"W-what are you!" Chie got into a fighting stance as the bear started to cower in fear of the girl. "Y-you wanna fight!?"

"D-don't yell at me like that…" This was by far the weirdest thing I had ever seen, not only that but…. Blood Mary had nothing on this world! Yu decided to take a diplomatic approach to our current predicament, I on the other hand had no idea what to say.

"What is this place?" The bear calmed down now and answered Yu's question calmly.

"This place is what it is," Great, fucking RIDDLES! I hated riddles because of this day! "It doesn't have a name. I've always lived here by myself."

"Dude slow down!" I held my head with one hand and held my other out to the bear. "You live here? Well do you know a way out!?"

"Yes," The bear seemed friendly enough to me, still I was confused as all heck. "I'll let you guys out, so that you can hurry back. Someone's been throwing people in here. It's a big headache."

"Huh?" Now Yosuke was confused, so two out of four. Let's make it four for four! "Throwing people in? What're you talking about?" The bear suddenly got pissed at Yosuke and stomped his/its/her foot.

"I dunno who's doing it! I just want them to think about it before they going doing something like that!"

Chie then got pissed at the bear for getting pissed, which was confusing, so I counted it. Three for four! "Hey, what's your problem? What gives YOU the right to yell at us like that!?"

The bear ran behind Yosuke and Yu, using Yu as a human shield between him and Chie! I just shrugged and answered for the bear. "Well you did yell at him and all, so an eye for an eye I guess?"

"Y-you guys should hurry back." The bear tried to look brave, but it didn't work when you hide behind someone's leg. Yosuke had apparently forgotten that the bear was gonna let us out, because now he yelled at the bear.

"What it comes down to is, you want us to get outta here, right?" Damnit, still three out of four confused! "Well we don't know how damnit!"

"That's why I said I'd let you out!" the bear was stomping his foot at Yosuke again.

"Like I keeping saying," Okay Yosuke, the first was okay, but now this was just ridiculous! "We don't know where the frickin' exit-! Wait… What?"

The bear tapped his foot twice and three old style TVs appeared out of nowhere. Yu finally looked confused. "Yes! Four out of four!"

Everyone looked me fun and I just whistled when they did. "Where did these TVs come from?" Yu had actually asked a question, holy crap it was the end of the world, which for all we knew it could have been… Yet before anyone cloud give Yu and answer the bear started to push all towards the TVs.

"Okay, now go,go, get outta here! I'm a busy bear!" With that, the huge teddy bear started to push us at the TVs.

"What's going on now!?" Chie was confused as the bear pushed us towards the TVs. "Whoa! Hey, what're you doing!?"

"S-stop pushing!" With Yosuke's final comment, I fell into the TVs and saw the familiar vortex of TV screens, next thing I knew I was looking up at the ceiling of Junes and Chie came flying out of the TV and landed right on top of me.

"Son of bitch! Why me!?" Yu and Yosuke soon followed, we all made it back alive. Chie was the first to question if we were even alive.

"Huh? Is this…?"

"Yep Junes," I poked Chie's arm to get her attention. "Now will you please get off of me?"

"Oh!" Chie jumped to her feet and helped me up. "Sorry! Wait, that means! We made it back!"

Suddenly an announcement came on over the stores PA system. "Attention, shoppers. Our daily limited-time sale will now begin at the side dish area on the first floor."

"Crap!" Yosuke looked at us with shock. "It's already that late!?"

"How late is late?" I questioned Yosuke's comment.

"About eight at night!" Everyone started to dust themselves off, we were alive and we knew it! Now all that was left was to make it home in one piece! Suddenly Yosuke seemed like he was hit with a bolt of inspiration. "Guys! I remember where I saw that poster before… Look over there! That's the poster we saw!"

Sure enough there was a post of the singer who was on the news when I first got to Japan was on the poster. Chie and Yu seemed just as shocked, I was just trying to make the details to make sure I wasn't insane. Chie voiced her surprise first. "Hey, you're right, they're the same. I couldn't tell before without the face, but it was Misuzu Hiiragi… She's been all over then news lately."

"Wait," I suddenly spoke up and made Chie jump. "Her husband had that affair with the announcer who just dead, right? So was that room back there connected to the announcer's death?"

"Yaaargh," We looked at Yosuke now in fear that he was about to explode. Though to be honest, wouldn't be the weirdest that that happened all day. "Stop! No more! We gotta stop talking about this. I'm gonna wipe what happened today from my brain. I don't think my poor heart can take anymore."

Chie looked pale when I looked back at her. "I'm feeling a chill too…"

I looked at the ground now; we all did, because all four of us felt sick. "Yeah, I think we all do. Let's just go home!"

Everyone nodded in agreement and we all wanted to go home.

Time Change: After School to Evening

Yosuke and Yu were already home as Chie was walking me to my house; I had no idea why though. The thought was nice, just we both felt sick. Though I did have my ankle to think about for a moment. Chie sighed as we made it to my door; I was still limping, but barely now! "Whew, I'm glad that today is over now!"

"Ha," I was in completely agreed with her. It was one hell of a day; yet we all came out alive, so that's a win in my book! "Yeah, let's never do that for the hell of it!"

Chie just chuckled slightly at my comment. "You don't have to worry about that with me!"

I smiled as I opened the front door to my house, I was just about to walk in with my umbrella. Yet I had a better idea in mind. "Here." I held out my umbrella to Chie for her to take.

"W-what!?"

"It's still raining out and I have a spare," I was trying hard to get her to take it, mainly cause I didn't want her to get sick, and we were both so damn exhausted from today that it wasn't even funny! "Don't try and argue; you will lose this fight! So please, I don't want you getting sick."

Chie blushed as I never even gave her a chance to fight back against my proposal! Only reason was because I didn't think I could win this fight if I got a "critical hit to the nads!" Chie slowly took the umbrella from my hand. "Thank you."

"Hey, call it even for back in the TV." I winked at nonchalant wink at her. "Though if you ever need anything Chie, you can talk to me."

"I'm actually glad to hear that!" Chie smiled brightly which caused me to smile brightly. "I will take you up on that over a steak some time?"

"Definitely! And hey, at least one good thing came out of today!" I smiled as she walked backwards to hear what I had to say.

"What's that?"

"Logic is losing one to four!"

Whew I feel good getting Chapter 3 done before going to sleep, well ain't no rest for the wicked! once again I hope you enjoyed! Please sumbit reviews! The feed back is welcome! there will not be an update on the date of 2/16/13! Sorry, I will update as soon as possible!