Elric saw it happen. Every moment was as if slow motion. He bolted toward the monster. He unsheathed and swung the katana in a single fluid motion. He blinked. Did he even hit the thing? The monster faced Elric and opened its maw as if to scream. Only a gurgle. A thin red line appeared and spread across its throat. Elric only stared awestruck as the monsters head fell from its shoulders.

"Wow. I'm good.", Elric said, trying to be a comic relief. It didn't work.

Claire lay on the cold ground, eyes wide. It hurt definately but she didn't feel like she was dying. Blood stained her clothes and skin. Elric carefully lifted her to stand and helped her to a bench. Working quickly, he tore off her shirt and used it to wipe some of the blood up. Next he tore his own shirt into strips and tied them around Claire's wounds. His work was a little fast but he patched her up as if he was a doctor. Claire wore only her blood-stained blue jeans and thin tank top now. Elric knelt so that he was eye level with her.

"Are you ok? Can you hear me?"

Claire nodded and stood reluctantly. She had almost died so it was perfectly reasonable for her to be in shock. A little strange for someone who had tried to take her own life.

"Do you want to continue or take a break for a while?", Elric asked in a serious tone.

"Let's keep going. I can walk.", Claire said quietly.

Using Elric for support, she slowly started toward a souvenir shop. After a few minutes Claire could walk on her own again.

They entered the shop cautiously, not knowing what to expect after that last monster. The shop was simply arranged with shelves of candy and stuffed animals. On the clerks desk was the parks mascot, Robbie the Rabbit. Years ago it must have been a lot of fun to try and win a Robbie doll. Today it was just creepy. It just stared at them.

"Claire!"

Claire heard her name called but not by Elric. She turned. There was her sister. Standing just beside her.

"Cass!", Claire screamed joyfully and wrapped her arms around her younger sister who pushed her away. "Cass, what's wrong?"

"You're covered in blood!"

Claire laughed lightly, her wounds no longer hurting. Elric stepped around a shelf and gave Claire the strangest look.

"Who are you talking to?", he asked

"Oh, sorry, Elric this is my sister.", Claire answered, pointing to Cassie.

"Are you feeling ok?", Elric was worried now.

"Yeah, I'm fine now that Cass is here."

"Claire, I think you should sit down."

"What? Why?"

"Claire...There's no one here besides you and me."

Claire took it in slowly. She looked from Elric's concerned face to Cassie's. Her sister was no longer there, instead a plastic mannequin. "No. No. Nonononono!", Claire screamed, shoving the mannequin over. She ran from the little shop and out into the amusement park, shoving Elric into a shelf as she went. Elric tried to catch himself as he fell but gravity worked against him. His head slammed into the hard wood shelf and he collapsed to the floor. Darkness took him.

Claire ran as fast as her weakened legs could. Soon her wounds took toll and she fell to her knees huffing for breath. She buried her head in her hands.

A little ways away, the sound of metal screeching against metal echoed through the fog. Screeching calls from the many monsters in the fog answered it in unison. The sounds were drowned out by a loud siren. And the darkness came. This was what Elric awoke to. It was black as pitch and not a sight was seen. Fumbling around in his newly acquired duster, Elric produced a flashlight. The light hummed to life and illuminated the shop. This was not the same shop. It was metallic and rusty. What might have once been wallpaper now hung loose in tatters on the metal walls. Elric shone the light at the floor which was more of a metal grate than a floor. It would have been frightening to a normal person. Elric tore through the otherworldly souvenir shop for a shirt to cover his bare torso. He found a pink Robbie shirt. Better than nothing. He slipped it on and exited the shop to search for Claire.

Outside was a nightmare. Blood and rust everywhere. The faint sound of machinary in the distance. The black sky rained ash and soot. The ground was entirely made up of bloody, rusty, dilapidated grate. The game stalls and rides were now grotesque shadows of their normal condition. Elric was both horrified and fascinated. He set out into the horrorland to find Claire.