The silence was thick and suffocating. They sat in the waiting room, all lost in their own thoughts. Tsukumo looked up at Gareki who sat across from her. He was staring at the ground, his face blank. She looked at 'Liam', who stood with her arms crossed. Her hat tipped casting a shadow over her face. Her hair was no longer scrunched up under her hat, and it fell in waves down her back. It was curly and messy, and dyed as well.
"Tsukumo." Hirato called her name and she turned her head to face him.
"Yes?"
"Come with me please." She stood and followed him out of the room. The walked to a room close to the one Yogi was in, close enough that they would be found if anything were to suddenly go wrong. The took a seat across from each other. "Tsukumo, I want you to tell me what happened. Don't leave anything out, understood?" She nodded.
Tsukumo took a breathe. "It all happened so fast..."
"We followed Liam into the house of mirrors. Nai right behind Liam, and myself behind Nai. To keep an eye on him. We wawlked around. There were all types of mirrors, and they were all huge. We looked around for a while, i think we might have been lost, but Liam didn't seem to likely to admit that anytime soon. Then Nai, he just, he just took off. He stopped completely, like he had heard something.
"Hey, what's up Nai?" Liam asked the small boy. Then Nai took off. He ran past Liam, who missed when he tried to grab the small boy. We took off after him, but he got ahead, we didnt know where he could have gone. "Come on."Liam said and i followed him. We found our way back out, but after who knows how long. We heard the sound of some sort of crash, ad we took of towards it. We found Gareki, Yogi, Nai and that man from before. The man had Yogi, and, Yogi." Tsukumo took a breathe.
"He was gone. His eyes were blank, he looked so empty. Gareki, and Liam looked so angry. Liam's eyes-they were almost black again! And Nai, was hiding behind Gareki, he looked so afraid. Liam started speaking, i don't know how, but he and Yogi know that man from somewhere. Liam said." Aw, isn't that nice, you've come to visit us. I thought you only played with good boys?" I-I didn't understand what he meant, b-but the man and Yogi did." Tsukumo took another ragged breath in an attempt to calm her nerves. "The man, threw Yogi aside, and called out those two huge post human. Liam launched himself at the man, but the post human got in the way. The other one went to Gareki and Nai, so i went to help them. I didn't see what happened while we fought, but, I heared a scream."
"Yogi was on the floor bleeding, the post human was dead, Liam was hurt badly, and the man had Nai. He said, "It was fun seeing you two again, but I don't play with broken toys," Then, h-he took Nai!" Tsukumo chocked. Hirato placed a hand on her shoulder.
"We'll get him back." He said. Tsukumo nodded, not trusting herself to speak.
Gareki stared at the ground. It all felt so, unreal. He glanced at Liam from the corner of his eye. "What are you?" Liam didn't answer. "What are you?" Gareki demanded again.
"What do you mean by that?"
"What else could i mean, what the hell are you? You can't be human, not with that kind of strength." Gareki accused. Liam looked at him, her hat casting a shadow over her eyes.
"I am what i am. I'm the same thing as Yogi. " Her lips twisted up a bit into a dark smile. "A broken toy." She turned away. "Tell me if anything changes, I'll be in the room." With that she left. Leaving Gareki alone to his thoughts.
Gareki held his head in his hands.
IT had all happened so fast.
The roller coaster flew down and Yogi was pushed more into Gareki. Soon the ride pulled to a stop. The bar lifted up, forcing Yogi to try and climb out awkwardly and clumsily. Garkei got out and caught Yogi' s elbow as he stumbled a bit. "Uh, thank you Gareki." Gareki didn't answer, instead looking away from Yogi.
They both stood there a few minutes, neither trusting themselves to speak just yet. What could they say? "Um, what do you want to do Gareki?" Yogi asked, feeling uncertain of himself.
"We should find the others." Gareki said, and felt like punching himself. That's not what he had wanted to say. IT was to late now to change his mind, because Yogi had agreed and started walking already. He followed after the young man.
they had walked around. Looking for the other three, when Gareki noticed Yogi looking at the farris wheel. He wanted to scold him, but couldn't when he saw the look of longing on his face. "C'mon." He said and walked over to the giant wheel shaped ride. yogi followed, confused,
"Gareki, why-"
"You wanna ride, right?" Gareki asked, cutting him off. "Shut up and get in. Besides, we could get a better view from up there." Yogi grinned and nodded. They started the ride, and quickly climbed into a safe cart. Gareki had checked twice, to be safe. The ride started up slowly and they rose. Their cart shaking just once, and swinging lightly as they went higher and higher.
Gareki felt slight panic rise in his belly, but it dissipated when he looked at Yogi. The man seemed to completely oblivious to any potential danger. He was so absorbed with their surroundings, taking in every detail of the run down carnival that they wondered into. It brought a slight smile to Gareki's lips. Nothing more than a twitch to the corners of his mouth. But it was enough. A warm feeling settled in his stomach and he felt content.
"Hello, pet."
A chill ran down Yogi's spine. No, not now. yogi and Gareki turned their heads, standing on the cart above them, was the man from before. He grinned at them, his teeth yellow and nasty. "The boy isn't here? What a shame, i was hoping we could play." The man said, grinning at the two.
"Leave Nai alone!" Yogi yelled.
"Oh, what's this? Yelling at Master, this won't do." The man lunged foorward and tackled Yogi out of the cart. The fell down, Yogi manage to kick the man off of him and grab on to a passing Cart. The man landed on the ground and took off. yogi follwoed after.
"Yogi!" Gareki called, stuck in the cart until the ride was over, or at least until he was close enough to the ground to jump out.
Yogi chased after the man. He had to get to Nai before him. He couldn't let Nai get hurt. Not like he had been. So he ran after the man, soon he lost him but he kept running. He searched until he saw Nai. "Nai!" He called, and then he felt a pain in his side. He flew a couple feet to the left, he held his side as he tried to sit up. He saw the man and glared.
"That's no way to look at you master, pet." the man sneered.
"Yogi!" Gareki yelled as he ran up to them. He stopped when he saw the man. "Who the hell are you?" He demanded.
The man grinned. "The names Zar. You can call me master." He was sudden;y next to Yogi. yogi gasped and tried to get away, but Zar was to fast. He grabed yogi and pulled him angainst himself. He grabed Yogi face and smiled. "Isn't that right Yogi?" He ripped the Bandage off of Yogi's face and dropped him. Yogi fell to the ground, he laid there completely limp. Then his body convulsed. He shook and twitched,then stopped. He sprang up, his hair silver.
"Well, hello 'master' can't say i'm glad to see you." Yogi sneered happily. the man smirked.
"what a horrible thing to the say to the man who made you strong."
"Made me strong, hmm? What a peculiar way of training someone you have, most would mistake it fro, breaking people." Yogi stepped forward, and the man stepped back. Nai looked confused and terrified. The man focused on him.
"Little boy, why don't you play with us."
"Like hell." Gareki said, stepping in front of Nai.
"Nai!" Liam and Tsukumo ran up to them.
The man grabbed yogi and whispered something in his ear. Yogi didn't move, his hair turned blonde again, but something was off. He looked empty and defeated. He looked like he had given up.
" Aw, isn't that nice, you've come to visit us. I thought you only played with good boys?"Liam said, his nail's growing as he got into a fighting position.
"To many people." The man sighed. He snapped his fingers. "Come out to play pretties." Two huge post humans jumped out of the shadows. Their skin bulging and stretching. Liam growled, his eyes darkening but not turning black. He lunged at the man, only to have one of the post human get in the way, as another one lunged at Gareki.
Gareki shot at it and Tsukumo jumped and kicked it down to the ground. IT got back up again and made a grabe at Tsukumo. Gareki distracted it by shooting at it, giving Tsukumo enough time to kick it in the head a couple times. IT fell to the ground and Gareki shot it in the head.
Liam jumped as he post human went to hit him. He flipped towards it and brought his hand down, running his 'claws' down it's 'face'. IT screeched and he jumped away. The monster charged at him and he dodged, jumping forward to kick it in the head, dazing it fr a bit before he tore half it's face of with his claws.
The monster swung and slashed down his shoulder and side. Liam almost screamed as he fell to one knee. The monster went to hit him again, but he rolled out the way. when it finally went down, he had a fair share of blood on him. "Such a messy way to fight." He sighed.
"Aaaaagghh!" All heads turned towards where the scream had come from. The man held Yogi by his shirt, as if Yogi was disgusting garbadge. He let go and Yogi fell to the ground. He was covered in blood and so was the man. The man snapped his fingers and something flew past them. A small post human, and in it's jaws an uncounscious Nai.
"Nai!" Tsukumo and Gareki yelled.
"Bye Bye for now." The man said and he disappeared as smoke filled the area.
"Nai!"Tsukumo yelled, running forward to try and get to them. but when the smoke cleared, they where gone. Not a trace left behind. Nothing. Liam knelt next to Yogi.
"Come on yogi, stay with us." He said. "Shit!" He tore off his bloodied jacket to rip at his shirt. Using the good, clean half of his shirt, Liam tried to stop Yogi's bleeding. In doing so, he left 'himself' rather exposed. Gareki ran up to the two, he took off his jacket to replace the now blood soaked remaint of Liam's shirt.
"Put your Jacket on. We can see you shoulder and side." Liam looked down. He had ripped the right half off his shirt off, leaving his shoulder and part of the side exposed. Showing that 'his' body was wrapped. A certain area of 'his' body.
"Hahaha." Liam chuckled, no longer forcing their voice. "Name's not really Liam." She said. "I'm Rinji's little sister. The one the doctor talked about."
"What is your name?" Tsukumo asked. Liam looked at her bloodied hands, then put on her jacket.
"We have to call the others. Yogi's bleeding to fast and to much." So that's what Tsukumo had done. She contacted Hirato, and they had been picked up. Yogi was put into intensive care, and Liam was patched up.
"Damn it! DammitDammitDammit!" Liam punched a wall. Her fist going threw it. If only just barely. The metal dented badly, a bit ripping threw and her knuckles had to be broken, if anything badly bruised. She fell to her was all her fault. If only she hadn been faster, if only she hadn't been weak. no.
If only she had killed him when she had the chance so many years ago. If she had, none of this would happen.
But then you'd be alone.
"I am alone!"
You still have me~
"I don't want you!"
Ouch so mean landlord. He laughed.
"I swear to god Liam, just shut up!" She hissed sliding to the floor.
But Moriko, I don't wanna shut up. Liam laughed mockingly. Aw, don't cry.
"You said you would leave."
Doll, i can't leave until you can make me leave. So, I guess i'll be here a while, huh?
"Shut up!" She screamed. Liam went quite. Tears welled up in Moriko's mis-matched eyes,"Just shut up already." She sobbed. "I can't...take it anymore." she sat in Yogi's room and cried.