IT'S A MIRACLE I UPDATED! After almost forgetting I even had this story cause of school, I found the rough copy of it in one of my notebooks so I finally got to continuing it. YAY ME!
On to CH.4! Wow 4 reviews, one for each chapter so far? Well thanks so far, here's another chapter for ya.
Disclaimer: TWEWY IS MINE! *police arrive at meh house* gawd can't anyone tell a joke anymore!?
Day 3
"I told you I'm fine!" Neku said stomping away.
"No you're not! You're still hurt, you need to rest!" Shiki cried stomping after him.
"You two lovebirds should keep it down or you'll wake our guest," Joshua semi-whispered to them with his eyes closed, referring to the gothic lolita reaper who was laying unconscious on a bench beside Joshua. He was leaning against the wall and looked as if he was thinking of something.
"Grr, I will once Neku decides to rest! You're just making it worse Neku!" Shiki scolded.
"I can't believe you can get up and walk around after that hit man," exclaimed Beat lying on another bench near them.
The friends were at the statue of Hachiko waiting for the mission for the day. Beat was still in pain by what had happened the other day yet Neku was up and around with energy. Neku couldn't just sit around and wait because that weirdo GM, Kyosuke, could attack at any moment. To him it seemed like no one cared and was too at ease.
"If you won't settle down then I'll just have to make you myself," Joshua opened his eyes and looked at Neku with a sly smirk. Neku looked at Joshua for a second and felt a chill run down his spine. He sat down immediately. Rhyme giggled a bit as Beat rolled his eyes. Shiki sighed in relief, looking over to him she saw him pouting. The reaper stirred.
"I wonder if she'll wake up soon," Rhyme stated looking at the reaper she saw her wings move with her breathing.
"Yeah I have a lot of questions for her," Neku angrily said.
"But she might not remember, and it's not her fault she killed us. She was being mind controlled," Shiki pointed out.
"Well she's gotta know something about the GM," Neku yelled back at Shiki.
"Yes, she might know why he's trying to kill me, I still have no idea why," Joshua interrupted the little squabble rather calmly as if he didn't really care that his life was in danger.
"Hey Rhyme," Beat turned to his little sister, ignoring the little epidemic that was going on, "You sure you're not hurt from what happened yesterday?"
"For the tenth time yes," Rhyme answered with a smile knowing her brother's concern. Ever since Beat woke up he had been asking her the same question over and over again. Their phones beeped, the mission had finally come.
"But what about the reaper?" Shiki asked as she looked over to the girl, but Ms. Gothic Lolita was gone.
"She must've woken up and sneaked away without us noticing," Joshua shrugged, "We'll find her later, first the mission right Neku?"
"Yeah since we're the only ones left we have to finish it, you know I still wonder how you haven't got erased yet without a partner," Neku looked a Joshua with his eyebrow raised in question.
"Well I've avoided all the noise and you're the ones doing the fighting not me," Joshua walked away from the wall with a large grin on his face knowing that Neku suddenly realized for he felt Neku scowl behind him.
"Dang that reaper's real quiet yo," Beat sat up scratching his head.
"Make the reaper on top of Pork City disappear in 3 hours or you're erased. Have fun Ex-composer," the mission read. It seemed easy enough. Hopefully the reaper wouldn't be a hard one to beat and that the GM didn't have control over. The timer appeared on their hands and began ticking away.
"We gotta be careful, you never know if that GM will attack us after we beat the reaper," Neku warned.
"Good point phones," Beat stood up and grabbed his skateboard, "Let's go kick some reaper ass."
"Ah. Are you sure you can walk?" asked Rhyme, a little startled.
"Yeah I've rested enough, besides I'm not gonna let phones have all the fun. Let's bounce guys!" Beat led the way with the friends following behind planning on what they would do. In the scramble Joshua suddenly stopped walking and closed his eyes.
"Don't tell me there's another wall," groaned Neku.
"No listen," Joshua pointed to a group of people in a corner of the scramble, "Listen to their thoughts."
Everyone but Neku closed their eyes to concentrate on the thoughts. Neku just stared at Joshua first as if he was insane before concentrating on the voices in the heads of the people. There were many voices:
"Damn Pork City is closed."
"I can't believe the owner forgot to open it."
"The owner's lost no way!"
"How am I supposed to go on a date with Katie now?"
"Who cares if Pork City's closed?"
"CAKE!" (wtf!?)
"Oh no, how do we get there now?" Rhyme spoke up.
"We gotta find the owner, but I'm not sure how to get him to open it," Neku suggested just as their phones beeped.
"Hey we got a meme of Pork City," Shiki exclaimed reading the mail on her cell, "We could imprint it into his thoughts."
"OK, now where's the owner yo?" Beat made a very good point. One of the thoughts they heard said that the owner was lost. Seemed like he was the only one that could open Pork City for them.
"How about we split up into 2 groups and gather information," Joshua came up acting like he was the leader.
"Me and Beat will check out Cat street," Rhyme said looking at Beat who nodded in agreement.
"Alright meet back here in an hour," Neku waved to the 2 as they left
"So where do we start?" Shiki asked.
"To Dogenzaka!" Neku shouted.
"Why are you hungry Neku?" Joshua asked giggling.
"Maybe," Neku peered over to Joshua wondering what he was thinking.
"OK we'll eat first then look for the owner we have lots of time anyways," Shiki led the way.
"Yes an excellent idea," Joshua smirked at Neku before following Shiki. Neku suddenly had a chill run down his spine again.
After eating the group walked around Shibuya, listening to the people's thoughts and asking questions to the people in building where they could be seen. Most of the information they got were all useless. They were getting nowhere and an hour soon passed. The group of 3 sat on a bench at Hachiko thinking of what to do next.
"Argh we only have an hour and forty minutes left!" Neku grumbled, "We're never gonna find this stupid owner!"
"He has to be somewhere in Shibuya, maybe Beat and Rhyme found him," Shiki suggested, hoping Neku would calm down, "Let's head back to the scramble."
"Wait I think I found him," Joshua spoke up, looking at a middle aged man in a business suit beside them.
"I know I forgot to do something today . . . but what?" the man said talking to himself.
"That has to be him!" Neku stood up.
"Let's try imprinting the meme, he obviously forgot," Shiki began listening to his thoughts. Neku and Joshua looked at Shiki and the business man waiting for something to happen.
"OH GEEZ!" the man suddenly shouted, "I forgot to open Pork City!"
"Well there we go," Joshua smiled at Neku.
"Okay let's follow the guy to make sure he opens up the place," Neku quickly averted his gaze away from Joshua and began following the man.
The owner headed straight to Pork City with the three following behind. Joshua giggled at Neku while he tried to ignore him. On their way there they past Beat and Rhyme without knowing it.
"Man where are they?" Beat asked in fury not knowing they had just run past him.
"Just wait a little longer 'kay? They should be here soon," reassured Rhyme.
At Pork City there was a bit of a crowd as the man finally opened the door. Some people swore and yelled at the man as he apologized many times.
"Wow tough crowd," Neku said as he waited for the crown to go in before he did.
"Wait we have to go back for Beat and Rhyme," Shiki said pulling Neku back.
"Ah that's right, they're probably waiting for us right ngph-," Joshua was cut off as he was suddenly pulled into the entrance of Pork City by an arm that looked like it came from a noise.
"Joshua!" cried Shiki as she ran in after him.
"No wait! It could be a trap!" Neku yelled out, but she had already gone inside and was unable to hear him. He followed in after, "Argh Shiki."
Inside Neku saw Shiki chasing a creature that was covering Joshua's mouth and carrying him to the second level of Pork City. Neku followed while trying to attack the creature with arrows. Meanwhile back at the Shibuya Scramble.
"Yo we only have two hours and a half left, if we stay here waiting we'll run out of time!" shouted Beat, "Let's go look for them. Man when I find phones . . ."
"Ah, maybe they're at Pork City already, and something happened," Rhyme quickly thought to calm Beat down.
"Fine, but if they're not there phone's gonna get it," Beat stormed off with Rhyme following with a sigh. At Pork City they found a crowd in front of the building looking inside and not going in. Within the crowd was a gate reaper.
"Think that's the reaper we have to fight?" whispered Beat to Rhyme.
"No the mission said that the reaper we have to fight is at the top of Pork City, plus these are just support reapers," Rhyme whispered back.
"Oh . . . then I'm asking what's going on," Beat walked up to the reaper in the red hoodie and asked, "Yo what's going on man?"
"There's something happening on the second floor, like fighting or something. The people are too afraid to go in and I've been ordered to stay out here by the reaper on top of the building," explained the gate reaper.
"Thanks yo!" Beat quickly went around the crowd and into Pork City. Rhyme followed trying to keep up.
"Beat wait! We gotta sneak in. We'll take whatever they're fighting by surprise," Rhyme said panting after catching up to Beat.
"Sorry Rhyme, I just think it's the reaper they're fight'n, I don't want'em to beat it without me!" Beat said anxiously.
"They can't defeat it without you. Let's sneak in and you can take the final blow!" Rhyme quietly went upstairs, Beat followed with a grin on his face knowing that Rhyme was right.
There were many sounds of explosions during the fight. Rhyme opened the stair door a little bit and saw Neku and Shiki fighting a noise that looked like a black panther standing on its back legs, holding Joshua hostage. Rhyme creeped in with Beat behind her. Shiki saw them and continued distracting the noise so it wouldn't notice them. When they were right behind the noise, Beat got onto his skateboard and went in for an aerial attack while Rhyme ran in for a ground attack. Neku finally noticed Beat and got out of the way when they attacked. The panther noise fell forward after the great attacks letting go of Joshua who flew right into Neku. They both fell as the black panther noise changed into a normal looking black cat and ran away up to the roof.
"Nice catch," Joshua half grinned in pain at Neku underneath him.
"Ugh just get off me!" Neku cried trying to push him off.
"Enough fooling around you two! The cat probably ran to the reaper we have to fight. Come on!" Shiki began heading up the stairs.
Beat came by Neku and shouted, "Can't believe you started without me yo!"
"Well sorry if it attacked us first," Neku winced, getting up after Joshua got off him. The five quickly headed upstairs following the trail of the cat and ended up on the roof. The cat spotted them coming and ran behind the block where they had come out from.
"Miana what happened? Did you run into some players?" they heard a voice say. Neku began to walk towards the voice slowly and the others followed. He waved his hand and all five of them jumped out from behind the corner and attacked the spot where the heard the voice come from. But no one was there, only an empty plate.
"Oi, are you guys the one who hurt Miana?" They all looked up to see a girl with Korean pop star styled black hair, black pants, a black mid drift tang-top, unconnected long flared out black sleeves and black Chinese shoes, carrying the cat. (wow she likes a lot of black but she ain't goth or EMO) She jumped down and looked at the five players with a glare, her reaper wings spread out behind her.
"Hmm . . . you players look familiar."
End ch.4
Yay! I will try my best to get ch.5 up as soon as I can! Please R&R~!