May 23, 2011

Forecast… Rain in the Morning, Cloudy at night

Monday

"That was one of the weirdest things I have ever seen!" I heard the people gossiping, I just hoped to god that they hadn't see- "The person on the Midnight Channel, I've never seen her before, she was dressed like a punk rocker…"

Well… um… damnit… "Dude, what are you talking about? You must have been dreaming."

"No, I'm telling you!"

"Come, let's go…"

"But…" And saved by the bell on that one! I sighed, hoping that Chie and me weren't the only ones who saw the Midnight Channel last night… I was scared, scared that my little, annoying, dumbass of a caring sister might be dead… I was thinking about it over and over again, how did Em even come close to fitting the pattern!? I knew for a fact that she had never shown up on TV until the Midnight Channel! And she was here far too to have met Ms. Yamano! I tried to stand up, but my legs started to shake heavily, I almost fell straight to the ground. I would have too, if Chie hadn't grabbed my arm. Everyone was right behind her; they all had worried looks on their faces. They knew that is time, it was without a doubt personal!

"We need to discuss this…" Yu barely mentioned it, but we knew we had to. I nodded and carefully took my seat again. We all sat down in a circle, we were the only people left in the room at that time. I took a deep breath.

"It doesn't make any sense…" I curled my fist and looked straight at the ground. "Why would he target Em!? She was never on TV, and she didn't even have any encounters with Ms. Yamano!"

"I thought the same thing…" Yukiko spoke up while also looking like she was deep in thought. "So, I looked into it, and actually… Em-chan was on TV once… after… one of your… attempts…"

I froze, I had forgotten all about the third time… a local saw me getting ready to cut my… well, I won't get too far into it... The local news station made a big deal about it even went so far as to call me a psychopath! My mom flipped the switch on those guys… that station almost was run out of business with that law-suit… "Though, it seems like my mom was on the phone with her when Ms. Yamano was trying to get service…"

"So she does fit the pattern…" Yosuke rubbed his chin, he was right, but only by those little defaults… "But she isn't that well known yet, so it still doesn't make much sense… Gahh! This is so freaking messed up! There wasn't even a warning!"

"Actually…" I spoke up quietly; Yosuke looked at me with a confused glance… "She started to show up the same time Kanji did… "Her appearance was a lot slower though…"

"Well we can't just sit here!" Chie jumped to her feet with her arms at her sides. "It won't do Em-chan any good if we sit around and complain about it! We need to save her, and not just for her…"

"Chie…" I looked up at her, I wanted to thank her, but then everyone spoke up…

"Yeah!" Yukiko also got to her feet, we needed to do this, and she knew it. "Em-chan is a good person, she doesn't deserve this!"

"Yukiko-san…"

"We can't just let one of our friend's family die." Yosuke put on his signature smirk with one eye closed. I was close to tears, I hadn't know any of these guys for very long… and they were already going out of their way for me… Yu stood up with a smile on his face.

"We can't just let someone die, especially not some that important to a friend." I'm kinda embarrassed to admit it, that and Yosuke laughs every time I mention it… even though I know he means well… I started to cry, right there in that desk with the four people who were slowly becoming like family to me… I felt a hand on my shoulder, then one on the other. Yet another put one on my head, then… one gripped my hand. "What are you crying for?"

"Be- because… I… never ha- had thi-this… before…" I rubbed my eyes with my sleeve and slowly stood up, I had the third biggest smile I would every have on my face at that moment… the second and first came later… "I'm… I'm happy!"

"Let's go save Em-chan!" Chie pumped her arms to her sides and did a little jump. All of us looked over to her. "Then, we gotta rescue her!"

We all stared at her for a moment… that was when we busted out laughing, not at Chie, she laughed with us. I stopped and looked at Chie's brown eyes, I sighed loudly as everything calmed down.

Junes Food Court

Will was already waiting us at the food court, he had on a dress shirt and tie, I guess he had another failed job interview. "Cool, I knew we'd meet up here!"

"Yeah," I smiled at my old friend and pushed his shoulder. "We were just about to head for Ted's."

"Yeah, and since Em is Kreed's sister, we shouldn't have to do any investigating." Yosuke sighed loudly when he voiced this. He was right, that could cause us a lot of trouble to have to run around and try to find any information on the person in trouble. This should have worked to our advantage… should have. "So let's get going already!"

"Yosuke…" I looked at him with death in my eyes. "Do not steal Chie's lines!"

Shadow World

Entrance

Evening

"I do smell someone in here…" Teddie looked confused when we mentioned that Em was in the TV world. "But I just noticed it now… that is beary troublesome… could me nose really be getting that bad! Oh, this is a grizzly problem indeed."

We all shook our head at Teddie, but we were silent for that moment, and that's when I heard it. Everyone else did too. "Is that… music?"

Yukiko titled her head slightly, she was right, it was a guitar at that… from what I could tell, it was playing the song Memories by Weezer… that was a song that was important to me and my sister… "Wait… where is that coming from?" Chie looked around, it sounded like it was coming from every direction at once!

"Oh, great!" I slapped my forehead. It left a red mark there for a time; I knew what was going on. Yosuke figured it out as well.

"Surround sound!?" I nodded at Yosuke, so the Shadow was drowning out every possible way of finding us using music. This was not planned.

"Oh, not again!" Ted started to stomp his foot, apparently the music bothered Ted. To be honest… the TV world was way too quiet for me… it need the music. "That music is making almost impossible to find Em-chan!"

"Dude!" Will almost yelled at the bear. "You don't even know what she looks like… why are you already calling her chan?"

"Well, why not?" Will and Teddie continued to argue on the subject, that's when Yosuke pulled me aside. I was very confused by the whole thing…

"You okay?" Now I was even more confused… what in the world had caused Yosuke to pull me aside. I could still hear Will and Teddie arguing. "I mean are you okay enough to fight."

"Yosuke…" I put on my most evil of grins. "This thing is in the way between me and my sister. You can bet your ass I'm good to go!"

That's when the music stopped and Teddie's ears perked up. "Oh, what's this!? I'm bearly certain that I found the sent!" We all stopped and looked right at Ted. The world was about to be set right, I wasn't gonna let some overpowered… I guess ego ain't the right word, still… I wasn't gonna let some overpowered emotions take my sister away. "I know where the scent's coming from! It's that away!"

Stadium

"We should have seen this one coming…" Chie sighed as we looked up the large stadium before us. In retro speck… she was right, Em's Shadow was looking for a show, and the best place to do so… a freaking stadium… just great… "Though, why did the music stop?"

"Probably waiting for an audience…" Yu looked at the door; the door was a normal size for a stadium entrance. The only thing was, the door looked like the whole Hypnos circle… thing, I don't know what to call it! Still, I was calm enough to gather the info of our surroundings. "Kreed, do you know anything that Em was trying to hide?"

"Besides playing guitar, and the fact that she is a little more…" I gripped my chin to think of the right words. "Foal mouthed."

"I can vouch for that…"Will rubbed the back of his neck… yeah, he knew from experience. Em and him got in a disagreement once and Em would have to put at least one hundred dollars in a swear jar. It was actually very funny to watch Em's reactions change and Will scramble across the floor to get away from her. It made me chuckle even at that moment. "Still, she's not a bad person…"

Everyone nodded, I already figured out what part why it was a stadium… I needed to tell Em something then, and nothing was gonna stop that from happening. I pulled at my beanie and walked to the front door of the stadium. That's when I saw a sign on the door. I practically kicked the door open when I saw it. "Come guys, it's a free concert… and I don't plan on missing it!"

Staduim

Mainfloor

The moment we entered the Stadium shadows started to attack from all directions that they could, which was from the actual stadium doors and from both hallways, which made it easy to guess where they were coming from. Yet I noticed a song playing from the speakers of all around us. "For a minute, she's stuck spinning in it. Still it's better to lose hope than dying in it. Off track, impact, slam! She's lying in it. Now she leads the way to the lost cost exhibit. You got to break through the walls that try to hold you."

That was all I needed to hear to know that it was without a doubt Em inside the TV. That was one of her absolute favorite songs. I summoned my tarot card and bashed the card with the tip of my baseball bat. The fact of the matter was, I wasn't pissed, I was relieved that I had the fate of my sister in my hands… I would stop at nothing to save her as well! The Puppeteer was completely destroying almost all of the Shadows with a single slice of his scythe. Tomoe appeared behind is back and stabbed a Shadow through the head. The Shadows just didn't stop coming, we were all forced into a corner with the sheer number of Shadows. Will summoned the Golem which gave all of us some room to breathe.

The Golem started to toss the Shadows left and right! Yu summoned Izanagi who used Zio on most of the Shadows, hurting them, but not doing a single thing! We couldn't hear each other with how loud the music was! Just before we wiped out the last of the Shadows… hundreds more poured into the mainfloor of the Stadium… I wasn't going to give up on my sister, I kept fighting, yet I made sure I was close to Chie, just enough so I could still see her… that was, until every last Shadow in the area covered us enterly… I reached out for Chie, I wasn't going to give up on anyone or anything! I kept telling myself this… until a Shadow bashed me on the back of my head… Everything went black, I couldn't see any of my friends, I was lost, then… I fainted.

Oh crap… this one is way late! Sorry it took so long! Well here it is, thanks to those who have sent in their OC's so far and those who continue to comment! I hope you enjoyed and please send your feedback and any OC's ya got for this! Thanks!

Song(s):

Memories by Weezer

Into You by Zebrahead