Waaaaah procrastination. I was amazed to see how many reviews I've already gotten 0_0 Not very much going on in this chapter, but next one is more exciting 8D
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Dear World,
I know your reading this. I know your scared, but your curious too, aren't you? This has been up for a day and I've posted only once, on my Youtube too. It's almost funny, isn't it?
My inbox was flooded, so many of the questions being, "Why?"
There's no doubt in my mind L and Kira are going to read this, so I'll oblige and answer. Because I can, I'm bored, and I just don't like humans in general.
I'm not for certain whether L and Kira wish to play my game, so I'm giving them some... motivation. Your jobs are to contact me. If I can't speak to you, how can we play our game?
If I haven't heard from either of you in the twenty-four hours since this has been posted in a way that I honestly believe it's you, I will kill five more people in the Kanto region of Japan. And not five altogether – five people per each of you.
If I hear from you, you win this round and I will further explain the rules of our game in a way not so public.
Watch out world, five more people are dying today. Will you be one of them?
Chaos loves you.
I wonder how most people react the night after their first kill. Do their minds not shut up and they just spend the night thinking to themselves, regretting? Maybe they are plagued with nightmares of guilt, voices whispering how evil they are.
Honestly, having never personally met any murderers, I wouldn't know. But I slept amazingly last night, better than I had in months, despite only sleeping for three hours.
I could already see how this was effecting me. My smiles were more real, my face had more color, and I didn't even have to put concealer under the bag beneath my eyes. I had plans with two of my "friends" to go to the mall, no matter how much I wished not too. I had no plausible excuse, and I couldn't suddenly stop hanging out with them. Oh how much I wanted to write there names down.
Maybe I would. It depended on how annoyed I was at the end of the day. I had yet to kill in Indiana, though I had only killed eleven so far – Amelia, the five from last night, and the five from this morning. There names were branded into my mind, and to most of them I was apathetic. Besides Jacques Peterson, the prisoner convicted for the brutal murder of various animals.
It was fun making him die.
Seeing as it was News Years day, Angela and Natalie were excited to celebrate it with their best friend. They practically dragged me out of my house and into Natalie's little Volvo. I plastered a smile on my face, not paying attention as they chatted about how much fun we were going to have.
I spent the entire day with the brainless duo, buying over a hundred dollars in clothes I quite honestly hated. A pink American Eagle jacket, a pair of white skinny jeans that were uncomfortably tight, a pair of Uggs, a creme-colored sweater, and a very expensive dark burgundy gown that I really didn't want to buy, but apparently it "went great with my black hair, suited my figure perfectly, and looked amazing with my dark brown eyes."
Do you understand this? I don't. I don't wish to either. I'm rather positive my brain cells were committing suicide each time they spoke.
I was more than relieved to be dropped off at around 5:00pm. Father asked my generic questions every good father asks. "How was your day? Did you have fun? How are Natalie and Angela? You should invite them over to dinner sometime."
My dull life, void of excitement made a reappearance.
Throughout the dinner, I did what was expected of me as usual. Listened when Mother and Father spoke, laughed at each predictable joke and ate what was on my plate. I cleared off the table, kissed my father's cheek, hugged my mother and took a quick shower before heading off to my room.
Hulu, sleeping as usual, was curled up on my pillow. Kori padded in behind me jumping up onto my bed as I grabbed my laptop. The Death Note was stashed under a floorboard in the basement. I had no plans to get it anytime soon, having tore out thirty or so pages. If I wrote small, they would last for a very long time, and they were so much easier to keep hidden then a whole book.
That was part of my work from last night, among other things. I had actually taken a piece of the Death Note with me today, tucked into my bra for just in case situations.
I collapsed onto my bed, absently petting Kori. L and Kira still had a few hours to go before I killed the people in Kanto. so I couldn't do that.
With a sigh, I opened my Stephen King book. Maybe it would get me new ideas for tomorrows victims.
X.x.X
From the Shinigami Realm, Tabitha was being observed by two people. One of them a humanoid Shinigami, about seven feet tall with a black cloak over her features, though you could still see a hint of red hair from beneath the hood, along with their thin hands that extended into six inch long claws.
Beside the female shinigami was Rem, one of the few other females in the realm. The two had been friends for eons, and recently they had taken to observing humans. Generally Rem watched a Misa Amane, a girl she seemed to become attached too. The cloaked shinigami, on the other hand, was watching Tabitha.
"I still can't believe you dropped your note." Rem said in a resigned voice, glancing at her companion. "What is the point of doing all of this?"
The female Shinigami seemed to glance at Rem. "You know very well why I'm doing this. One, because I'm bored, and two because Ryuk screwed me over last time we played cards, not to mention the fact that he took Sidoh's note again." The cloaked figure grumbled, crossing her arms like a petulant child. Rem rolled her eyes.
"When are you giving your note to the Misa girl?" The reaper questioned after a moment of silence. Rem paused, seemingly thinking about something before apparently coming to a conclusion.
"Now, I guess. You should go check on your note as well." The white-haired woman said with a pointed look at her companion who nodded.
"I'll see you soon Remmy." She said, chuckling as she entered the portal.
X.x.X
Light hadn't heard of Chaos immediately. Of all people he heard about him from it was his little sister Sayu. She had brought it up at breakfast.
"Hey, Aniki? Did you hear?" She questioned, almost bouncing up in her seat as she ate her hard-boiled egg. Light gave her a curious look as he ate his own breakfast.
"Hear what?" He questioned, leaning forward slightly. His mother was in the other room doing laundry, so he could be curious without anyone getting very suspicious. Maybe she had seen something about L? An announcement?
Light had a few suspicions, yet they proved to be far from the truth.
"You seriously haven't heard yet? There's this new person with Kira powers!" She exclaimed and Light narrowly avoided freezing, instead masking his panic with a mask of innocent confusion.
"What do you mean?" He questioned. Sayu beamed – she always had loved telling stories.
"Well, Momo-chan texted me yesterday and told me to check out this Youtube video, right? It was called Welcome to Chaos or something. Anyway there was a robotic-y voice like L used talking about stuff but they spoke in a ton of different languages, but mostly English. They had translations in the description. Anyway, wait I wrote the whole speech thing on my phone, let me check." She exclaimed, reaching into her pocket. Light allowed his mask to fade for a moment.
It had to be a bluff – right? Maybe L had set it up to draw him out. Yes, yes that was probably it...
Sayu cheered, grabbing the small pink cellphone, hitting a few buttons before reciting the speech. "I am Chaos. I am no god, nor am I justice. I am simply a human on this disgusting planet we have created. I have the power of Kira, though I have no morals. I can, and will kill anyone I wish too. Why? Because Kira and L have created a game I wish to play. For L, I can and will kill anyone that meets my fancy. With Kira, I am just another one of those criminals you wish to kill. I also know of the power you use to murder." She paused for a breath, not noticing her brother's rapidly paling face.
Light wasn't one to curse, but he was doing a large amount of just that in his head. It had to be a bluff, it had to be a bluff, it had to be a bluff.
Sayu, after regaining her breath, finished up speaking. "I wonder who will win this game, and how many people will die because of it? Times ticking. Chaos loves you."
"Well, it's obviously a fake video right?" Light said delicately and Sayu surprised him by frowning slightly and shaking her head.
"No... Chaos has a blog too. I checked it out and he already posted a list of the people he killed. Apparently everyone died in different ways but they always shout, 'Chaos loves me!' right before they die. It's so scary – it could be anyone next, especially since he's gonna kill a bunch of people in Kanto if L and Kira don't do his challenge thing."
The auburn-haired boy had already been on the edge of a minor freak out – not only did he have to deal with L now but there was a mass murderer targeting innocent people, a person worse than L – but then he heard the last part and his voice turned sharp.
"He did what?" Sayu looked mildly shocked at Light's change in demeanor, so he quickly put the polite smile on his face once more.
Sayu glanced at him warily before shrugging. "Chaos is challenging Kira and L to a game. They have to contact him in a way that he believes him today or he'll kill ten random people in Kanto."
One word filtered through his mind.
Shit.
X.x.X
It didn't take very long to finish the book. I could quite honestly say, if I ever had to marry, it would be to Stephen King. Maybe I should dedicate a few deaths to him... I had a few new methods I wished to try. A sadistic smirk flashed over my lips as I sat up stretching.
"Yo!" A voice suddenly called and, unlike most people, I froze instead of flinching, turning around with a blank expression upon my face. Kori blinked sleepily white Hulu hissed menacingly at the... thing.
It was very tall, nearly touching my ceiling, though it did have spindly black wings. The thing was humanoid, but it looked as if it had no fat or muscle, like it was literally skin and bones. It's skin was completely black – not in an African American way either, but pure black. It – actually, upon noticing it's faint curves I noticed I realized "it" was a she, had claw-like hands, flaming red hair and pure white eyes, with a gray cloak as her clothes.
"...Hello." I said politely. The female cackled, for there was no other word that could be used to describe the action.
"You don't even seem surprised!"
"If you don't mind me asking, who exactly are you?" I questioned, years of practice keeping me from betraying my minor confusion. Yes, there was a not-quite-human creature in my room. No, I wasn't scared, surprised definitely and a little curious.
Maybe the Death Note belonged to them? Hmm... death by humanoid creature. Sounded unique. Though, hopefully they didn't find it prudent to kill me yet, as soon as my life began getting interesting.
"I'm Lyra – your Shinigami."
I don't ally like this chapter E_E I procrastinated a lot writing it, but it's finally done! I'm on spring break this week, so I should update frequently :3 Oh, and tell me if I portrayed Light right 8D
Song of the Chapter: John Wayne Gacy - Sufjan Stevens (Go listen to it :3)
~Adra