Roxy: omg we updated! Guys me and Carm are working on our costumes. We're cos-playing our characters in this fic! Lol well the pics will be posted on dev art when it happens so keep an eye open.

Carmen: Wait what?

RR:

Skavnema: don't worry, shes harmless even when drunk –gets beaten by Roxy- Owwwwww…. Never mind.

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Chapter 5

Carmen stood in the halls of the Oni's castle inspecting a brutally tortured body. It was too mangled to be considered a human or an Oni.

"The poor soul…"

Carmen muttered under her breath.

"Indeed."

"GAH!"

Carmen leaped away from Rango who had suddenly appeared beside her head.

"Goddammit! What did I say about popping out of nowhere? YOU DO NOT POP OUT OF NOWHERE!!!!"

"Sorry, I was just wondering what you where doing. You didn't answer your cell phone, and that Rufus guy said that you have been missing since last night."

Carmen winced slightly, before sighing "Sorry, I've been… preoccupied lately"

"Meaning you're working too hard. You're still a kid, Carmen. Don't push yourself."

Carmen winced again at Rango's words, before retorting

"I'm not a frikking kid, I'm 17, turning 18 soon, god, get it right."

Rango laughed at Carmen's retort, before going off to look around more.

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Roxy awoke an hour later after taking the advil and her hangover didn't even seem to be there anymore. It was late into the afternoon and almost time for Vincent to go to the club and look for Carmen.

He walked into Roxy's room dressed in a red dress shirt and black slacks. He gave her a kiss good bye and turned his cell phone on and with the key in ignition Vincent and Roxy's M3 were gone.

Roxy lazily waved to him and shut the door then took her cell phone out of her pocket and sat at the table. Yuffie was seated across from her along with Cid who was doing a cross word puzzle.

"Ok Carmen has three cells: one for work, one for the Oni slayers, and one for personal usage the one I usually call. I have all three numbers and her home number and if I call all of them she has to pick up at least one of them."

Yuffie nodded and watched Roxy scroll through her phone list and speed dialing the numbers.

"Hello?"

"Rufus?"

"Yes. This is Rufus Shinra here."

"What are you doing answering Carmen's home phone?"

"I live here don't I?"

"…Is Carmen home?"

"No. Wh-"

Roxy hung up and tried Carmen's cell.

"Hello?"

"Rufus?! What are you doing with Carmen's personal cell phone?"

"Nothing."

"Then why did you answer it!"

"It was just sitting on the table ringing. So I answered it."

"…"

Roxy hung up and called Carmen's work number.

"Hello?"

"Rufus!"

"Yes?"

"Don't tell me Carmen left her work cell on the table too."

"Yes."

"…"

Roxy hung up and tried the Oni Slayer cell. Rufus won't answer this one she was sure of it.

"Hello?"

"Dammit!"

Roxy hung up and sighed. What was Rufus doing with THREE cell phones?

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Carmen sighed as she glanced at the body that Kuza and some other rouge Oni were dragging away. Human, she could tell. No magical traces, so killed by struggle. And like all others… She turned again to the body. It had no head, and the weapon had vanished.

She slowly examined the wounds on the body. Long slash marks, and bullet holes. With grim satisfaction, she concluded that Deepground was here. No mistaking it. She took out her palm pilot, and then text messaged the Slayer Base.

Reports of 'Unknown Slayer has been murdered by Deepground' are confirmed. His weapons as well as his head are missing. The small intestines are missing as well, presumably eaten by stray Oni or demon. Rest of Slayer squad's location is unknown.

Carmen sighed as she pressed the send button. She didn't know why, but the air was…Ominous… Something bad was to happen. Carmen pinched the bridge of her nose in irritation. She was informed only very few details, that Deepground was lurking around here and the slayer squad they dispatched had mysteriously disappeared.

Something was up with the slayers. They were dispatching squads here and there to clean up the mess left behind by the Onis. Surely they would have it cleaned up by now, and why exactly were Deepground still here? Shouldn't they gave gone back by now preparing for Omega incident?

"Carmen! Carmen!"

Carmen turned her head to see Rango quickly running up to her. He stopped in front of her, panting hard then finally spoke.

"We found the weapons and heads of the murdered squad and… found something of interest."

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Roxy: This is short for a reason. I accidentally got a writing boost and ended up with 9 pages long of story. So we cut it up into itty bitty pieces…Yeah…

Carmen: And now we have to do a long boring, editing job of the whole damn thing. I blame you, Roxy. Ow, Shit! I got hit in the face with a metal baseball bat on Thursday. It hurts like hell… Now I have a huge bruise on my face.