It has been so long since the incident where we've met Mai and Akemi, without them saving us we wouldn't have survived. I stared at my bowl of rice not knowing what to do. I stared out the window seeing a group of birds getting along with each other. But we didn't. Students had blamed my sister and I for being one of the smart kids in Vocal high. Only 12 years old in human age we were able to skip two grades and end up studying with the ninth graders. Including with the Vocaloid twins, Rin and Len.
It seemed very awkward when people think that my sister and I were twins as well, but we weren't. I was made two years before Ikuko was created and they had made a big mistake, but instead we agreed that we were twins. I interrupted from my thinking with these sounds in my head. "Ikuto, Ikuto, do you hear me?"
"I think his system broke again."
"Let me try this." SLAP! I felt a pain on my right cheek noticing that I dozed out while eating. "Oww," I said, "why did you do that, it hurt." Ikuko flustered and squirmed in her seat. Mai remarked, "You were dozing off so she did have the right to slap you on the face."
"She didn't just slap him, she poured water over me just to wake me up," Akemi added.
"That was my plan to wake you up, I told her to do that for me," replied Mai with a big grin on her face, "did it actually work?"
"What do you mean?"
"Like waking you up. You need to learn to wake up earlier BTW."
"Weren't you suppose to say BTW before you say the information."
"Nevermind, besides it looks like we should get ready for school, " remarked Mai. She grabbed her bag and ran off. I stood up from the table and put our dishes away while Ikuko got our bags and Akemi checked if we had forgotten anything. School of course, was not very far away. Some days we bike, so days we walk, some days we even went to school five minutes before school started and we always made it to class thirty seconds before the bell rung. Today we walked and if really felt sort of awkward since we came there earlier than usual. No one was there, the school was silent. "Where is everybody?" asked Akemi.
"I don't know, but this is very unusual, " replied Mai. She lifted her head in the air sniffing. "I don't smell a single thing or human around here, but this blood I smell, it… it smells dead."
"Area check…..no signs, " I said still looking around.
"I will check to make sure, " uttered Ikuko. She looked around, even looking up and down. "I don't sense anyyy…...y.y.y….th-in...g." She frozed and fell to the ground. Ikuko! Mai and I scrambled to get her up, but she quickly fell down to the ground. I touches her arm and sent an electric pulse in and waited for a response. Instead of a nice little shock back, it damaged my nerve wire inside of me. Then I knew it. "It's a virus, " I said in pain, removing my skin-like cover to fix the wire. "There they are! I told you so!" said a voice behind us. From my knowledge of voices from loids I heard, this one I scientifically guessed was Miku's. I turned around and I was right.
From all these years hiding our identities, we were tricked and caught. I took the anti-virus memory card and stuck it to the back of Ikuko's neck. She gradually started working again, but that card won't last long. Mai stood up and backed off the policemen and scientist that wanted to study us. Groups of students and teachers gathered around watching me work on Ikuko.
I took out the Cybertronic gun from my bag and gave it to Ikuko. Akemi whispered to her what has happened before she passed out after she had the virus. She gave a small nod, stood up, and pointed the gun right at Miku.
Miku then hid behind one of the officers back. He quickly pulled out a gun and took a shot, but missed. I looked at her, she pointed to the window and I nodded. We all started running and broke the window landing on the ground. Her long sniper had swayed into a scythe and she was able to balance on it without a single sway. It looked like she was a ninja balancing on a stick. Instead I plumed down my sword to the ground, creating a massive crack on the concrete.
I noticed that there weren't just officers in the school, but they surrounded the school wielding their guns and batons. Why did we even go to school at the first place? I looked around and pulled my cyber, laser sword off the ground and pointed to them, waiting for their first move. None of them started firing so Ikuko slammed her scythe straight at them and a little hole appeared on the tip of the stick end. BAM. One shot went perfectly inside the gun hole and exploded the inner side putting the gun to no use.
Then they all started firing from all directions, we blocked off every single bullet until Akemi appeared and casted the defense shield. Of course we weren't tired or anything, but Akemi thought we needed the help anyway. I noticed that since they are surrounding us, when they shoot, they will kill the person on the other side. I quickly told the plan to Akemi and Ikuko with sign language and we were off dodging every single bullet making sure each one would end up hitting the person on the other side.
We cleared up most of the guards and officers in our way until Mai passed by. "Vampires and demons, take us out with you, lend us your power!" she shouted and put her hand up in the air. Dark clouds began to form and it gave Mai shadow to burst her wings out. She held some sort of orb and threw it to the ground, which created smoke that eventually carried all of us off in the distance. She turned to face us and told us, "We will not be here ever again. They know our identity and they can find us. There is only one place we can go."
"There is no where we can go!" responded Akemi.
"Hell, " muttered Mai, "that's the only place we can go now. It's also where I was born and lived for two hundred years." She threw her hand down and we went falling towards the ground, breaking through the dirt and through the lava. The clouds protected us from the heat and the pounding. There was a sudden stop and Mai announced , "We're here, welcome to my hometown, Hell."
Hell apparently did not look like the stories and pictures in the religious stories I heard and from my calculations. It looked like a huge volcanic land with villages here and there. Moans of dead people and demons were everywhere. The black cloud lead us to this mysterious kingdom. It had rocky mountains towering through the center which on the top had a majestic castle. We stopped at the front of the gate. "Stop there, these creatures do not belong in this kingdom, you must send them out, " commanded the demon guard.
"I am the demon princess, Mai. You must let me through with my comrades, " Mai claimed.
"Mai! Oh my lord I am very sorry, I will let you through. I will send a notice that you are back to the kingdom. Welcome back mistress, " He bowed to us and opened the gates.
Mai was the Princess of Hell? Why didn't I know that from the start? I wondered if the kingdom would actually help us with out problems with the humans above us. There were shouts of many demons, vampires, and children cheering for Mai. Though Mai herself, was not a girly type of person. She looked straight at her path, not waving to anyone, and was very serious. Unusual for a princess.