I sit up in a dark room. There's a guy with purple hair sitting nearby. He notices I'm awake.

"Hello, I'm Hitoshi."

Is this that guy from before? And he looks older than 13…

"Let me explain what's going on. We are the patrollers of this area. And we were stationed here by the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. Well, actually, we used to live here and the condition to stay here was to keep watch over this place,"

"I'm assuming you know nothing since you were one of the 'livestock'. The reason why I am alive is because a cure for the disease was made before I died,"

So that's why…

"The Imperial Demon Army is, of course, an army that fights against the vampires and the demons that came out soon after the start of the apocalypse. We noticed you have a weapon already,"

He means my sword I guess…

"You will be using that to aid us in our battles."

"Have some food, and then we will leave."

How did I get into this so fast?

Before I have a chance to ask any questions, the guy leaves. Now what?

Might as well explore the place.

The sword is on the table next to my bed. And on it a note.

"Hey it's nice to welcome you to our group! :p"

I guess it's from the other people living here. There are some clothes on a chair near the desk. I just realised I'm still wearing my torn apart livestock clothes.

After I get changed I leave the room. There's another guy sitting at the table reading a book.

Does this place just have a bunch of guys? I hope I meet a girl soon…

"Hey, you're the new girl right?!" He smiles and winks.

And I certainly hope no one else is like this guy. T-T

"Here's your food!"

It's some spaghetti. I only ever ate this at the orphanage. But I can't really remember what it tastes like since we never had any in the vampire city.

The guy obviously noticed my long pause.

"Have you ever eaten this?"

I finally talk. "Well obviously! I had a life before I became livestock!"

I start eating in an attempt to end this conversation.

"By the way, my name's Takao."

I keep on ignoring him.

"And I'll be coming as well for your tour of the place!" he continues in an attempt to end the silence.

Might as well get this over and done with.

I finish eating my food and Takao gets up, to call the others I presume.

"Right, we have 4 other people here, excluding Hitoshi. Lemme just get them."

A while later the whole team have assembled. There's a girl with green hair in plaits, called Midori, and another girl with blue hair called Rika. The other two are boys called Toshi and Haruo.

I think they're all older than me.

"Let's go then shall we? Today's task is clearing our space of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

"Umm… what are those?" I ask.

"You'll see them soon enough." Rika says as a warning.

I grab the sword and take a better look at my clothes now that I'm out of the dark room. I'm wearing all black. I wasn't expecting anything really good but maybe something livelier. Takao called them 'stealth clothes' which is such a joke. My necklace is dangling around. I tuck it into my shirt. I don't want to lose it. Just realised I don't have any shoes to wear.

"Are there any shoes I could wear?"

"Here, have these." Toshi talked to me for the first time! He throws me some shoes to wear. Great, more black.

We get out of the apartment block and walk around on the road. I guess there aren't any cars so there's nothing to worry about.

I can't help but think that all I did was run away when my family was in trouble. Yu might be alive. Mika might be alive. If people like these got to them in time they might've been safe.

"Did you see anyone else? A boy with black hair that looked around the age of twelve. With green eyes?"

"Nope. Haven't heard anything about another kid."

"What about someone with blonde hair and-"

"Get out of the way!"

I'm pushed to the side by one of them and this huge creature comes. One of those horseman apocalypse thingies they were talking about? They start to fight it while I stand there. Not again. Not like that time. They finish it off quite quickly however and it seems there was no reason to take part.

However that one is followed by about three more, that all seem intent on killing us. I need to do something this time. But if I have no experience then what use am I in this battle? I'll come forward if they're in trouble.

These people are skilled. We've killed about 10 in only a couple of minutes. I hope I can do this kind of stuff eventually as well. Although I'm only eleven, it seems people are called on here despite their age. So I definitely need to practice.

Takao is coming up to me.

"Do you want to try?" he asks.

"I don't know if I'm good enough to do that kind of thing…"

"Just concentrate, and it'll come to you."

"Ok…"

"Don't worry, if you're in trouble, the great saviour Takao will rescue you!"

Wtf…

"Okay then…"

We walk a little further and come across more of them. Where did these demons all come from?

"Alright, time to try out that sword of yours."

On his command, I run up to the monster and attack.

I jump up and slash the creature across its chest. But it's starting to attack itself to hit me. Are these things really that intent on killing people? I think the best thing to do now would be to slice it up. I slash it while trying to avoid its attacks. I practically throw my sword at its neck trying to take off its head. Damn, the sword is stuck. I desperately try to get the sword out. An attack nearly kills me, making a huge scratch across my back. Takao obviously takes that as a sign I need help. Everyone comes over and the Horseman of the Apocalypse is dead within a minute.

"We should definitely go back and treat that. I'll go with her and you guys go on ahead."

Takao is kind of annoying in the way that he always follows me around. Did Hitoshi tell him to do this or is he doing it himself? I still don't really understand this place.

We get back and Takao gives me instructions on how to treat the wound. And he says I might as well take a shower while I'm doing that. He leaves and says everyone will be back soon.

I've been thinking about it, the weird dream I had might have been linked to the necklace I gave to Akane. I mean, I probably just didn't randomly sleep all of a sudden or have a hallucination. I need to look at that thing better. I'm still wearing it. How did I do that thing? I fiddle around with it a bit and open the locket itself. Was something meant to happen?

"What?"

It worked!

"Would you like me to heal your wounds?"

"How are you meant to do that?"

"And who are you? Does the necklace let me talk to you?" I continue.

"Okay. I will answer your question. The necklace does allow me to talk to you."

"But what's your name?"

"Open your eyes. The other people are coming very soon. In about a minute."

"How? Last time I did it without knowing."

"Just close your eyes."

Okay…

People actually read this I cannot believe it. Well meh. I hope you like the story.

By the way, I have a lot of assignments right now and won't be able to update for a bit.