I woke up at Times Square. As usual Sara was right by my side. The only thing that changed was the fact that Grey and Ash were with us too. Before we fell asleep yesterday, we agreed to work together to win the Game and apparently the Reapers were okay with it.
"Okay… the fourth day of the Game," I said.
"Look at all the people, and not one of them can see us," Ash said.
"Makes me sad, yo," Grey responded.
"I wish there were a way," Sara said.
I was thinking it was a dream come true, no one being able to see me meant no one expected anything of me, and I didn't want to live up to anyone's expectations. The mission came around.
Reach Rockefeller Plaza: No time limit.
Fail and face Erasure.
-The Reapers.
This seemed too easy, I was a little suspicious. But I wasn't complaining that it was that easy... yet. We started for Rockefeller, but when we reached the Manhattan Shopping Center, Sara asked if we could go in to check on something. There was a guy signing autograph books galore.
"Who Is that?" I asked.
"Only a guy wouldn't know him, Ricky," Ash said with little interest. "That's Frankie Schwartz the most fashionable guy on the runway."
"So… he's a model?"
"The biggest there is!" Sara said. "I've always dreamed of either my friends or my own male fashion designs getting on him! That'd be the biggest achievement in fashion history!"
"I don't really give much thought to fashion, as you can see." I gestured to my Black "Team USA" vest over a black T-shirt, cargo pants and a normal belt, Skull Bracelet, and Beats headphones.
"One thing I learned from Aphrodite is that Fashion sense, no matter whose it is, says something. And yours says 'I'm me.'"
"I like that idea… mostly." Then Frankie Schwartz came over to us.
"Hello Players."
"Another Reaper?" Ash asked.
"No, I'm a viewer of the Game, a former Player myself. The UG is like a fatal car accident. Once you see it, you can't stop seeing it."
"So, why are you talking to us?" I ask.
"I just wanted to say that your fashion sense is very… unique…" he says to me "probably one of the most independent of any I've ever seen before."
"Is that a good thing?"
"Yes… but there are still people who disagree with me. The only opinion that Matters is your own. Remember that."
With that under our belts, we set off for Rockefeller again. On the way I noticed for the first time the Bell Ash was always wearing. That would be big later, and I didn't know it.
We reached Rockefeller, Grey much faster than anyone else. A Giant Noise came up under him; it would've Erased him if it weren't for Ash. She pushed him outta the way of the bite from the Giant Cobra. All that was left was a Bell, the same one I noticed on the way here.
"Ashley!" Grey screamed to the Sky.
"Ah Man, he was supposed to be number 14." said a guy behind Grey.
"Reapers!" I yelled.
"Shane Cesium, and Ulrika Winters." The guy said. the other Reaper was the same girl who almost made me Erase Sara.
"You!"
"Me," Ulrika said. "Sorry 'bout your partner. But we're Reapers, it's kinda our job, and our life, in a way, depends on it."
"Screw your Job, Murderous Scum!" Grey grabbed Shane by the neck and hoisted him off the ground.
"Go Ahead…Erase me!" Shane said. "At least if I die… you're not far behind, Hero."
"Hey!" Dracula came up behind us. "Put him down!"
"Why, yo!? He killed Ash!"
"That's exactly why! If a player is Erased then the Partner follows in thirteen minutes! I got a job for you, and you can get her back!" he tossed a Pin to Grey who caught it in his left hand. There was a Pact forged and Grey stopped fading. "You're still not safe! Leave the Noise and the Reapers to Ricky and Sara!"
With tears in his eyes Grey let Shane down… "You'd better kill these Bastards good, ya' hear?" he went away with Dracula. Sara and I took out the Noise with fire and kitty fist. One of each was more than the Cobra could stand. When Shane and Ulrika saw that we were more than a match for the Noise they left with some discomforting words.
"Too bad Heroine was Erased. She made the Game Interesting from Hero's Story."
"We could've saved her," Sara said.
"Yeah… I wish I did too. But I just wasn't fast enough, I couldn't have saved her anyway." Here ends the Fourth Day