CHAPTER 10-The First Portal: Part Two

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Neji felt the air flowing against his face. Something seemed to be wrong. He noticed the landscape move up ward and the air was blowing way too fast.

He just didn't know that he was hurtling headfirst into a ravine.

"Luna! How fast are we going?" He yelled.

Silence was all he heard.

"Luna!" He yelled again. He pulled away from her, and finally understood. Luna was unconscious and…

He was about to die.

FLASHBACK
She sat alone in the dark corner, waiting for someone to notice. Always neglected, never noticed.

No one ever wanted to think of her. They wouldn't… They couldn't. Both her life and her twin's were foretold in a prophecy. Yet everyone marveled at Tsuki's talents, her beauty, and her "intelligence."

No one ever saw how beautiful Luna was. No one ever thought she was special, even though her powers were far more advanced than her twin's.

Every day she was beaten down by the harmful questions like, "How are you and Tsuki twins? You couldn't be more far apart." Luna couldn't take the insults. She can't even think about one time she was ever complimented.

She looked up and rubbed her already red eyes.

She would always be hurt. She could never be strong.

Neji couldn't yell anymore. His throat was already parched.

Suddenly, Neji had an idea. He dove.

He maneuvered his body to direct him to the nearest cliff wall. Once he was about half a foot away from it, he extended his leg to kick off of it.

It wasn't as easy as it sounds. The speed of their fall plus the cliff wall rubbing against Neji's foot caused enormous friction, causing Neji's foot to catch on fire.

Just kidding.

He rose up to Luna, and poked her HARD in a spot by her ribs. With the intense rapidity of Neji's kick off the wall, Luna coughed up a bit of blood; which mostly landed on both their foreheads.

"Eck…" She muttered, as she and Neji wiped the blood off their foreheads.

Neji could see the bottom now. There were only a few jagged rocks, but at the velocity at which they were traveling, they would make blood art on the ground… well, at least Neji would.

Luna's eyes widened. She grabbed Neji's chest fiercely, and opened her wings.

She yelled out in pain. She moved her hand to her shoulder, grabbed what seemed to be the shaft of the arrow, and yanked it out, spraying blood across her back.

But Neji didn't notice. The impact of her wings unfolding, against the speed of the air being pushed against them, was almost enough to give Neji whiplash, causing Neji to "die," leaving his soul in the game.

They floated to the ground. Luna couldn't flap her wing, so there was no way of getting back to the top.

When they finally touched the ground, Luna fell into a crumpled heap. It was hazy, and her eyelids were so heavy. She could barely see.

'I'm… dying. I shouldn't worry. He'll be here for me.' Luna's breaths became shallower. It wasn't the arrow… It was the blood loss. She couldn't help it.

"Ne—" Her voice faltered. "Neji…" She tried to raise her arm, but it fell beside her in her own cold blood.

"Luna." Neji saw her last seconds. She didn't dissipate like other characters when they were defeated…

…Was her soul stuck in the game too?

Neji put his fingers on her neck. He couldn't feel the pulse, like he felt his own. He didn't even know if her HP was completely gone.

He took one of the stones beside him and placed it beside her head. This wasn't new to him, but it still seemed to knock the wind of him, and left a hole inside.

The stone was dark purple, with a streak of black within.

And without another thought, Neji ran.

Sayuri raised the spell seal above her head.

"Remnants: Hear my call…" She yelled out. The bracelet she wore tingled with a dark glow. The bracelet was the key to her boss' realm.

She had a long ponytail, and purple robes. She always looked the part when murdering her victims, the many weapons tucked into their sheaths.

She blinked as she appeared in the white nothing that her boss controlled.

"What took you so long?"

Sayuri spun around.

"Mistress." Sayuri replied, bowing.

Her boss walked up to her, moving in such a graceful motion, that she looked like she was dancing. Her hair swooshed while moving in this fashion.

Her boss said in a calm voice, "Someone was contacting Luna before you terminated her."

Sayuri nodded curtly and listened closely.

"It was such a childish code." Her boss continued. "I want you to kill all the people who have been in contact with Luna and her party.

Sayuri nodded again. Her boss smiled a somewhat, malicious smirk.

The mistress turned in the white abyss and opened a door into an unknown darkness.

"Now if you'll excuse me," She said, "I need to supervise our prisoner's actions."

Neji went as far as he could away from Luna's body.

He sat down on one of the rocks. It was already 1:00.

'Great.' Neji thought, 'How will I get to Raigonia now?'

Neji laid back on the rock and thought of Tenten. He didn't want to think. He sighed and closed his eyes.

'Tenten… I hope you can wait for me just a little longer.'

He then shut off his thoughts, and went to sleep.

Tenten was dreaming. (More like a nightmare. Nightmaring?)

Tenten's Nightmare

 "Who are you?" said a familiar voice, "W-what are you doing here?" It said, with just a hint of fear.

It was a girl's voice, maybe Tenten's age. Tenten knew she had heard it before.

But she could only hear the voices in the dream.

"I am the beginning of your end." Another voice said. It was calm and collected.

Now, Tenten could see rough outlines.

"I-I'm not going to die without a fight." Said one of the voices; the familiar one.

One of the figures rushed towards the other, holding her palm out. The other figure somehow disappeared behind the figure that tried to attack.

"Too slow." Said the calm speaker, and chuckled a long, menacing laugh. One that belonged to a woman. The person that disappeared pulled back the other person's hair, and pulled out what appeared to be a knife.

"This," said the menacing, yet cool voice "Is your death."

She slashed the weapon across her victim's neck, killing her immediately.

Tenten woke up screaming.

But she had one thought stuck in her head…

'Tenten, I hope you can wait for me a little longer.'

Luna's Memoriam
The figure leaped down from the ledge.

His face twisted in pain as dark, black wings sprouted from his back. He shrunk, also growing small black feathers all over his body. He winced at the pain of transforming, growing wings, feathers, and shrinking skin.

He was now a raven, blending into the shadowed night.

He loosened his dark wings, letting the air flow freely beneath then as he slowly drifted to the bottom.

He landed behind a rock beside Luna's body, and changed back into his human form; less pain full than the previous transformation.

He dusted off his black jacket and walked up toward Luna.

"Luna…" He looked at her with a serious expression. "…Do you still remember me?"

He took out his blade and cut his finger, allowing a drop of blood to drip onto Luna's neck. He sighed and said, "Soul Transfer, Penultimate."

A necklace around his neck glistened. He pulled out a single red gemstone, and touched it to the blood. The stone sparkled into life; sending a whitish orb into the spot covered in blood.

It dissolved into her neck, erasing all traces of the figure's original blood. Luna's chest rose and fell. She was breathing…

…And having flashbacks.

FLASHBACK
"How come everyone likes you, but nobody cares about me? You can't even say that you have any real friends."

The white haired girl slapped her across the face, while the girls behind her snickered. The dark alley concealed the truth from the public.

"You're never going to be as good as me." Tsuki shouted, letting the insults echo throughout the alley. "You know it. It's all contained in the Legend."

"It's the Prophecy you… you… JERK!" Luna shouted.

Tsuki push her onto the ground; Luna caught a glimpse of a shoe. Tsuki was now kicking her. The girls laughed, and joined in.

Tears and blood mixed, and Luna waited until her twin and the posse left, then, her concealed sobs broke out, and she felt the pain again and again.

'It hurts…' she thought as she wiped her tears, not wanting to move from her spot.

"It's okay to cry," said a voice coming from the darkness. "It releases the sadness trapped within your heart."

The boy wore mainly black, and wore a brilliant ruby around his neck.

Luna sniffled as he sat next to her.

"Don't listen to them. None of them will be as powerful or as beautiful…" He blushed as he said the word, "…As you."

Luna wiped a tear from her eye. "How do you know?"

His face became more serious. "The Prophecy." He answered.

Luna winced as he said the word. The Prophecy was the one thing that controlled her life; the one thing that kept her from being a normal girl.

"Who are you?" She finally asked.

"I'm Haydn." He answered

END FLASHBACK
Luna blinked slowly, not knowing where she was.

'What the hell happened?' She asked herself.

She saw a dark figure in the corner. "Neji?" She said aloud. She felt around her shoulder.

She hissed. The pain made it all come back to her.

…And the wound still seemed to be there.

"Neji?" she said again, slightly louder.

"Nope." It said, coming out of the dark.

Luna smiled. "I should have known it was you… Haydn."

Outside the Game
Hinata ran from the Hyuuga Manor, leaving her father and sister in the dust…

'Who was that woman who appeared in my bedroom!?' She thought.

The woman did more than just show up uninvited; she tried to SLICE Hinata's head off!

She swerved into an alley.

"I've got to warn Naruto-kun…"

She didn't want to imagine what would happen to Naruto if she got there too late… And with that, she sprinted towards Naruto's apartment.

Luna's Memoriam
"Haydn, we need to get to Neji NOW." Luna was fully awake now.

He nodded, but the look in his eyes was enough to tell Luna that he didn't understand.

"Sayuri tried to kill me…" Luna started as Haydn somehow winced at the mention of Sayuri's name.

Luna continued, "If Sayuri tried to kill me… How do we know that she won't kill the rest of the party?!" Her voice rocketed through two octaves.

It clicked in Haydn's head.

"The doppelganger incident!" He yelled.

"Oh god."

"Poof! Ting-a-Ling!

Neji woke up immediately.

'No one's supposed to be logging in…'

It was 3:00. Five hours before someone usually logs in.

Neji was uninterested. He had already lost two people, and he really didn't want to talk. Besides, that rock was looking pretty comfortable…

"No! Neji!"

Neji spun around, barely missing the blade aimed to the back of his head.

"Luna?" He looked at her, then at the guy beside her.

Neji skidded to the left. He didn't even get a look at the attacker.

"Who is that?" Asked Neji to Luna.

Luna remained silent.

Neji looked at the figure…

…and couldn't believe his eyes.

It was Tenten.

END CHAPTER

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