Chapter Two: Swallowed Up by Cathedral Ship

As we return to our story, we left Shane in the engulfing darkness of her own home, listening to nothing but silence and her heartbeat.

Ba-bump...

Ba-bump...

The dark haired girl shook her head as she walked to the end of the hallway. She wiped her now sweaty hands on her dark blue sweatpants and glanced around the dark living room. She looked back at the hallway, darkness wrapped around the walls and doorways. Shane gulped as she thought she heard the sound of someone's footsteps. ''Don't worry, Shane,'' she said to herself, ''it's just Mom looking for candles.'' She smiled sightly and walked to the stairs that led to the den. As this happened, a pair of red, gleaming eyes stared from the ceiling in the darkness at Shane's back.

She carefully stepped down the steps, looking around. ''Dad? Are you in here?'' No answer. ''Kuso...where the hell are you guys?!'' ''They are not here,'' a quiet voice said in the darkness. Shane's senses immediately kicked into high gear as she turned around to meet the stare of a little girl with long orange hair wearing a white dress and a cross around her neck.

''Uh...who the hell..?'' She stuttered and fell back on her butt. Shane's eyes had to adjust to the darkness and to the glowing light that silloutted the girl's small form. ''Hang on...you...I've seen you..'' The girl looked at Shane as she stood up. ''You're from Xenosaga!! You're Nephillim!'' she exclaimed.

The girl now known as Nephillim nodded. ''Yes. Shane, I have something important to tell you.'' The dark haired young woman kneeled down to her height, looking at her. ''What is it? My family...where are they? And why'd the lights go out?'' Nephillim looked at Shane with a sort of blank stare. ''You, Shane, have been chosen...'' She blinked then tilted her head.

'' 'Chosen'? Whoa, look, Nephy, I'm not like Shion, KOS-MOS, or the others. I don't have Ether abilities and Tech Attacks!'' Nephillim just looked at Shane. ''It does not matter. You will recieve powers of your very own soon...'' With that said, the little girl vanished. Shane reached out where she was only to touch nothing. ''Kuso...'' she muttered as she looked around.

''Okay...there's 3 reasons why the lights went out: 1. A loose wire 2. A freak accident...maybe and 3. I might be hungry..SO HOW THE FUCKING HELL DID I SEE NEPHILLIM FROM XENOSAGA?!?!'' She grabbed her hair and ruffled it to the point where she would have been classified as a fluffball. By doing this, she dropped her Razor phone on the floor. ''Damnit...''

Shane bent down and picked it up slowly. This is where it becomes interesting. She stood back up and flipped the phone open. She turned around to look at her surroundings. That is, until she met face to face with a Lizardman gnosis. Shane looked at the snarling monster, a hungry and crazed look in its' eyes. ''Hey there,'' she said slowly, ''Nice evil monster with...big...sharp...teeth.'' The gnosis let out an ear-splitting roar as she screamed along the same frenquency. She immediately did the only thing a normal person would do in that kind of situation: either run or push the attacker out of the way. She chose option 2. Shane pushed the Lizardman down and ran towards the backdoor, unlocking and opening it hurriedly.

She ran outside and into the hood of her mom's car. Shane landed onto the ground with a small thud. She yelled out in pain after landing on her right shoulder. She sat up, holding her arm and looked at the doorway. The Lizardman roared as it tried to rush at Shane, only to get stuck in the door's small frame. It tried to get out of the doorway only to break the wooden frame, making the girl jump up in response. ''What the hell's going on?!'' She cried out. Shane turned to hear a roar and looked back to see an Ogre and a Cerberus gnosis walking towards her. ''Crud,'' the girl whispered as she ran towards the darkened road. She winced at the rocks pinching into her feet, the gnosis walking towards her with hunger in their gleaming eyes. Shane looked up at the sky only to see darkness. She stopped as she felt a drop of water hit her in the middle of her head. ''AH! What the...?'' Shane looked up at the sky again only to see the sky moving like it was alive. ''Hang on,'' she said to herself. ''I'm...I'm not going crazy, am I?'' She stepped onto the road and felt something wet under her feet. ''...I am...this so isn't real!'' Shane ran down the ''road'' and slammed into something hard. She fell down onto the ground, laying on her back.

''Ow...wait...in Xenosaga Ep. I, that planet...it was...'' A look of complete shock went on her face as she sat up fast. She looked to her side to see the handles of a bike jutting out of the ground, a red Honda attached to a tree. ''Oh man...my home..'' Shane whispered. ''It...it got turned into a Cathedral Ship gnosis...wait. HOW THE HELL DID I GET INSIDE AND SURVIVE?! On a further note: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!''

Chapter Two End (Okay...I'm sorry if it seems I rushed to the end of this chapter. I don't know how Shane got inside and survived inside a Catherdral Ship gnosis. More of this strange phenomeona will be explained fully in the next chapter. Leave reviews and comments, please!)