Chapter Seven: Disaster (iWillhexyou)

'Where is Itsuki?' Yuki asked herself as she stood outside a clothing shop directly beneath the slightly open closed space. She had no idea what Kyon had done but it must've been bad.

Haruhi had been in a good mood all day so something must've happened. That's how it had to be, the thought of this happening without Haruhi subconsciously aware was just terrifying. But what if her last closed space had been so powerful it wasn't possible to eliminate it? And what could come into this world if the closed space remained open any longer?

'This must be what real panic feels like,' Yuki thought as she took a seat on the bench. She was as close to a human her kind could get now, she had no way to contact her masters and receive orders, Yuki was on her own, but she knew she couldn't do anything without the others.

"Where are they?" Yuki hissed.

Suddenly she heard her, the voice of Haruhi was so unique and energetic that Yuki knew she was coming even from a block away.

"Forget Itsuki and Mikuru! Let's go grab Yuki and go investigate. What if the light disappears? This could be my only chance to witness something paranormal!"

"Haruhi!" Yuki cried turning towards her Brigade leader and Kyon.

"Yuki?" questioned Kyon, "What is going on here?"

"I don't know but I also know we can't wait much longer for Itsuki! If that portal stays open who know what will come through!"

Haruhi stood eyes wide with her jaw hanging uselessly open. Kyon wasn't sure if it was because she had never heard Yuki talk so much, which he himself was still trying to understand, or because of what she just said out loud with Haruhi present. Haruhi was bound to find out the truth long before now but he had never been able to do it himself. Now was just as good a time as any other time.

"What of the other espers?" Kyon asked, "Don't they usually sense these things?"

"It appears that this one is different, or else Itsuki and the others would have shown up, and we can't wait any longer."

"What should we do?" Kyon asked.

"I cannot explain now but I've lost my intellectual processing and matter composition abilities but I still have the fighting skills still embedded into my memory, we need to stop whatever is in that closed space. I can fight but if I get hurt this time, it's for real."

"This time…" Haruhi began but was interrupted.

"How do you plan to get us in there without Itsuki?"

"Simple, Haruhi will take us there."

Haruhi, who had been holding Kyon's hand abruptly pulled away from him and looked at her two friends skeptically.

"Take you where? What do I have to do with that thing in the sky?"

Sighing deeply, Yuki rested her hands on the shoulders of the confused and yet terrified Haruhi, "Listen, we don't have time to go over all the details, but that light in the sky is a crack to one of your previous closed spaces. You created it Haruhi, you created it in your mind and it became reality, only problem is that the espers must've been unable to remove all the fragments at the space that stayed in our reality, so you and only you can destroy it to save this world as it is."

Kyon had expected many things when Haruhi found out she was God, an unbelievable amount of joy, a little victory dance, but he never expected her to go pale and look at him as if he was crazy.

"This is a joke right?" Haruhi asked stepping way from Yuki, "Kyon just tell the truth about how that light is just a plane of something."

The only time ever that Haruhi needed to hear a sensible answer to a question was the one time Kyon couldn't answer, "Haruhi…" Kyon said before his voice fell short.

Haruhi's eyes widened, "But…but how? I don't know how to create a second world, how am I supposed to destroy one?"

"First, you need to get us there," said Yuki, "The only problem will be getting out with all your mental demons eliminated. Your mind comes up with some bad things Haruhi, we just need to fight."

Haruhi grew paler and a single tear rolled down her cheek, "For so long I wished for this…For something paranormal to happen to me…But…I created bad things?" She said hoarsely, "I never meant to, oh Kyon I never meant to!" She said before she began to sway.

Kyon caught her just in time and pulled her to him as she burst into violent sobs. This one of those rare moments that he knew Haruhi had a conscious; the thought that she had created something evil was too much for her to bear. Even in the dream they had together she wished for the creatures to be harmless. He just wished he had the time to explain that she had created beautiful things as well like Yuki, Mikuru and Itsuki, but they were pressed for time.

"Do this later," demanded Yuki, "We have to go! Haruhi try to think back to the day you caught Mikuru and Kyon in the clubroom. Try to remember everything you felt. Just close your eyes and concentrate. It's easier than you think just be ready when you open your eyes, I have a feeling that you will only be able to stop these things. Now try it!"

Haruhi swallowed hard but did as Yuki said and shut her eyes tightly while burying her face in Kyon's chest. She didn't want to remember that awful day. The day she thought she had lost Kyon's attention, and the will to live. It all seemed silly, but then it had been painful. The tension, the worry, the jealousy, and the fear of been rejected had left her stomach in a painful knot. She also recalled her head feeling like it would burst with all the different voices screaming at her. It had been am awful day, a terrible day, probably the worst day of her life, when she believed she couldn't get what she wanted.

"Good job, Haruhi," Yuki finally whispered making Haruhi's eyes snap open, "We've arrived."

"The school?" Haruhi questioned looking at her surroundings, "This seems just like our world."

Yuki opened her mouth to speak when suddenly the earth shook beneath them and they all fell to the ground. In the distance two glowing giant like creatures were walking around and apparently one had seen them because they were coming straight in their direction.

"Your plan now is?" Kyon asked his eyes widening and his arms tightening around Haruhi.

"We need to find a way to slow them down. If we ran behind the school they'll have to tear the place down to get to us! That will give us some time to think! Let's go!"

Running as fast as their legs would take them, Haruhi being the quickest; the group retreated and headed toward the back of the school.

In all honesty Kyon had no idea what the hell Yuki had planned. If she didn't have her usual abilities then how were they supposed to destroy those monsters? Did Haruhi have some sort of secret power he didn't know about? After all, she was technically God, so she could do whatever she wanted right?

"The plan Yuki?!" Kyon demanded in between his now short and rapid breaths.

"Haruhi and you are going to continue to be distractions while I sneak up behind the smaller one and slit its ankle. They might now look like it, but they are like humans and can be injured. If we just get him down everything is good.

"How the hell do you plan to cut its ankle? We don't have weapons!"

"I'll manage," replied Yuki who was already turning to leave.

"Yuki!" Haruhi cried out uselessly. She didn't know much about this alternative reality she created, but she knew those things were trouble.

"C'mon," Kyon said trying to get Haruhi out of her dreamlike state, "Let's go toward the baseball field that will give Yuki plenty of time."

Silently Haruhi obeyed for once and she and Kyon headed for the deserted baseball field. In the distance they could see the monsters trashing the school, a sight Haruhi would usually have smiled at.

"So this wasn't a dream?" Haruhi asked as she starred mesmerized by the blue glowing giant who was slowly but surely making its way toward them.

"Nope."

"Then we really…I mean you…no, I mean did I...?"

"Yes, "Kyon replied with a small blush on his cheek, "I should have told you awhile ago, but I just couldn't"

"Why?"

"Because that day we spent together you seemed so happy telling me your ideas and fantasies of the world. It was nice not having to be skeptical for once."

Haruhi didn't respond, she just watched the school she came to cherish so much fall to the ground.

Then one of the creatures turned its head and seemed to look straight into Haruhi's eyes. If Yuki wanted to be bait then that's what they were now.

Once again the ground shook beneath them as the creature began a full stride in their direction. At the time Haruhi must've thought it would be a good idea to make them excellent runners because it was going much faster than the first time.

"Kyon!" Haruhi cried as she tripped and fell into his arms, but Kyon also was unable to keep his balance and they fell to the ground together, Kyon's ankle spraining at some point.

"Time to go," Kyon said trying to raise himself up but fell back to the ground crying in pain, "Dammit!"

"Kyon get up!" Haruhi hollered kneeling at his side, "lean on my shoulder!"

"There's no way you can carry me Haruhi," Kyon said grasping his ankle, "just go Haruhi! Who knows what they'll do to you now that you're here!"

Haruhi's eyes widened as she looked up and noticed the creature was closed, dangerously close.

"If I created them can't I kill them like I did last time? I can get us out of here!"

"There's no time! Haruhi you don't even know how to control yourself! You have to go now!"

"I never obeyed anyone in my life Kyon, what makes you think I'm going to start now?!" Haruhi looked up, the creature only three or two paces away. Helpless, she threw herself over Kyon protectively and shut her eyes. The only thing that ran through her head was the thought of home and how she wanted to back in her old world. She thought it might have worked until she felt the earth shake so violently beneath her that she was thrown off Kyon and the side of her face met the dirt. But to her astonishment she was alive and so was Kyon, but what surprised her most of all that the creature was on the ground, a rope around its feel and white ooze pouring from its ankles.

From the shadows Yuki appeared carrying what appeared to be the sharp upper half of a coat hanger. She was panting but was also smiling.

"Guess I still got it, "Yuki laughed.

Yuki's laughing, Haruhi realized as she arose from the ground. Yuki was somehow seemed human all of a sudden and it made Haruhi feel bad for ignoring her so much.

So, Haruhi gave her a heartfelt smile and said in her normal, energetic Haruhi voice, "That was amazing Yuki! We can really use that in the next movie!"

Yuki only broadened her smile and said something equally energetic but Haruhi didn't listen. From behind Yuki the second creature had emerged with its left foot a good twenty feet off the ground. It didn't take a genius to know what it planned to do but Haruhi suddenly realized she knew exactly what it planned.

Then, doing the most unselfish thing of her life Haruhi ran to Yuki and pushed her out of the way.

There was dead silence as the blue glowing foot fell atop Haruhi. Even the creature seemed to be shocked before is suddenly let out a horrific scream and evaporated into a set of white glowing, lightening balls. The rest of the closed space followed and the three teens were now lying in the alley way of who knows where.

Kyon was dizzy and it took him a moment to focus his eyes but when they did and he saw Haruhi on the ground, unmoving, and Yuki in tears beside her, he let out a hushed and painful whisper, "Haruhi…" He said.