(Sohinki's POV)
"No way dude, she actually in the game?!" Lasercorn shouted down my ear.
"Lasercorn!" I screamed. He apologised and told us to stay exactly where we were.
"So you've actually been in the game all this time huh?" I asked, unsure how much I would be able to take in. When I saw her face, it looked exactly like her, and she was crying. But staying still.
"S-Sohinki!" She cried as she jumped and hugged me. I hugged her back.
"I wanna kill her," Lasercorn said.
"No Lasercorn! Can't you see if you kill her, she'll actually die!"
"Wow, so like in that anime with the nerve gear thing?" Joven asked. I nodded. The only thing she has said was my surname.
"S-Soh-" she got cut off by a guy shouting her. She froze and trembled.
"You better not have told them about this? You haven't right, 'cause then I'll have to kill you then them." He waddled in while swinging his pistol around.
"Mari, who is this guy?" I asked.
"Who are you?" Joven asked from behind us.
"Mari!" Two other guys ran from behind us. Lasercorn and Joven blocked them. "We're friends of hers."
"We're closer, how do we know you're not with that guy," Joven asked when he signalled to him.
"Who are you anyway?!" I shouted over to the guy with the pistol.
"Good, she hasn't told you about me. But you're gonna find out sooner or later, better now." He smirked. "I'm Steve, KnightGates08, and I'm the one who put Mari in this death game."
"You bastard!" All of us yelled, excluding Mari of course. She was still clung on to me.
"Hehe, it's her own fault. But no need to worry, with the way she's going it's only for a week."
"Get her out of this now!" I yelled, causing Mari to jump a little. I hugged her again and reassured her that she was in safe hands. "I mean it, get her out of this now!"
"I can't, I set it for a week. The only way of getting her out is, well..." He made a click noise with his mouth and slid his fingers across his neck. "Death."
"You sick bastard," I growled. Lasercorn got a firework launcher and fired it at him. Killing him.
"He went off with bright colours," Lasercorn said.
"2/10 on Lasercorns joke," Joven and I said. He just laughed.
"So who are you guys?" Joven asked the two guys in black leather jackets and jeans.
"I'm Dean, and this is Sam. She got shot so we decided to look after her. Until that KnightGates guy came in and took her."
"Wait, she got shot?!" I asked alarmingly. "Where did you get shot?"
She moved her arm and showed me. My eyes widened as I saw her bloody arm.
"Wait, how am I doing this?" I asked. Then Dean explained. "Right, anyone got a piece of clothe or anything for the moment?"
"I do," Sam said as he walked closer and tied it around her arm tightly. She winced at the pain. "Sorry Mari, but it needs to be like that to make sure that you don't loose anymore blood."
"So, should we go to Mari's place?" I asked. We all agreed and walked over there, with Mari leading. She doesn't show on the map. That's weird, but helpful, so players don't try to kill her. Once we finally got to her apartment, we sat down and watched TV.
"I-I didn't get anything f-for food," Mari said a bit quietly, but loud enough for all of us to hear.
"Wow, she speaks," Lasercorn said in shock.
"S-Shut up Lasercorn," she pouted a little.
"I'll get you food, wait, can I do that?" Joven asked.
"Not unless you're in a Nerve Gear," Sam said. "I'll go and get you food now."
"We've got two, but we don't play on GTA 'cause we can die very easily. But we've gotten better and shooting, so it'll be good for now." Dean said. Sam logged off.
"Right, where do you get them from?" Joven asked.
"Japan," he answered.
"Would you like one Mari?" Lasercorn joked. She pushed him and shook her head.
"I think she hates being here like this. You don't need to worry Mari, we'll help ya out," I smiled.
"Thanks," she thanked. "But you can't stay here all night. And if I do anything to annoy KnightGates, he can kill me."
"We'll take shifts. We'll make sure he doesn't go near you," I said.
"Dude, she meant in reality. He's monitoring her 24/7. Anything he does to her, she'll feel it here." Dean said. Mari nodded, then grasped on to her arm in pain.
"Ah," she moaned. When she lifted her hand from her other arm, we saw a horizontal cut.
"That sick bastard," Dean said under his breath. "I wanna kill him."
"But if you do that then we won't find out where Mari is and get her out of this," Joven said. "Also, you would only actual kill him if we knew where he was, and you would probably get put in jail for it."
"Self defense?" Lasercorn asked.
"That wouldn't count," Joven said. "Considering he hasn't done anything to us, besides Mari, and he's only pissed us off."
"Damn." Dean said. I went to get Mari some clothe for her other wound. "Why is it always on your arm?"
Mari shrugged. "I don't know, maybe it's the most exposed spot to him, considering I'm just wearing a shirt and not a jumper."
"Hmm, maybe." Dean muttered as he thought. "I'm just surprised he hasn't done anything perverted to you, like cut any inappropriate part of your body. Or sexually touched you. Or anything like that."
Sam whacked him across the head. "Sorry about that, he gets sadistic like that sometimes," Sam apologised to us.
Mari looked down. "It's alright. To be honest I'm surprised he hasn't." I hugged her.
"No that was wrong, I shouldn't have said anything." He rubbed the back of his head with a nervous smile. "I'm truly sorry, I tend to be a bit sadistic at times. I shouldn't have said it."
"Whoa," Mari said as she rubbed her stomach. "He's touching there. Ugh, a lot of pressure." She mumbled the last part.
"Hey Dean, I need to talk to ya." Sam said, "you too Sohinki."
"What ever you want to say you can say it here," I said. He just stared at me. I sighed and got up. Mari reached for me like a child. "I'll just be a second. Joven, comfort her."
"Right," he said and he sat down next to her. "It's alright Mari, he'll just be a second."
"I'm not a 5 year old," she told.
"With the way you reached for Sohinki it see looked like it," Lasercorn chuckled a bit as he sat down on her other side. She pouted.
Dean, Sam and I walked to the kitchen. "So what ya want?" I said as I got a drink.
"I think we can track him down if he's in the game and I'm not. I can use the Nerve Gear to track the one he's using." Sam said.
"Hmm. But he's still out of the game if he's playing though, won't he find out?" I asked.
"Ah, that's where the others come in. We need to get Mari as bait to keep him occupied, he'll be focusing so much on the game that he won't notice." Dean said.
"How would we use Mari as bait. Can't he see us? If he's watching over Mari-" Sam cut me off.
"He's only near Mari, he can't follow any other play in a different room or building than her." Dean said.
"Are you two brothers?" I asked. They nodded. "Okay, carry on with this plan of yours."
"Right, well we need Mari out in the open.." And they continued to explain. It was a pretty solid plan. Dangerous for Mari though. "We can teach Mari how to use the guns and equip them."
"Okay. How long will it be for the plan to be in action?" I asked. Lasercorn asked what plan, "I'll tell you later Lasercorn."
"So, you in?" Sam asked. I agreed.
"Hey Mari!" Dean called. "Why don't Sam and I teach you how to equip weapons?"
"Sure," she smiled.
"Right." Sam smiled. "All you need to do is this pose." He had his feet spread out a bit and his left arm across his chest, ending at his right cheek. "Equip!"
There was a small glow of red and his Rifle appeared in his hand. "Pretty simple." He smiled.
"That's only the way you want to do it. But you do have to shout equip. And it is more cooler to do it like that," Dean said.
"Whatever, I like it." He smiled. And it looked like Mari liked it too.
"To get rid of it, just go like this," Sam said as he stood straight and swiped his and to the side. "Store." He said rather loud, but not shouting like he did to get the rifle.
"See, it's simple," he smiled. Mari walked up next to Sam and tried it.
"Equip!" She shouted. A dark blue glow flashed and a knife appeared.
"Cool, so you thought of the knife. It'll be cool if you could get a Katana here." Sam said. Mari smiled agreeing.
"Try wielding it," Dean said. So she wielded the knife, almost scratching the wall and Dean.
"Ah! S-Sorry," she apologised.
He just laughed. "It's okay. No harm done," he smiled.
"Try storing it so you don't kill anyone," Sam chuckled a bit.
Mari nodded. "Store!" She said louder than Sam did. But it worked. "Ah!"
"What's wrong?" Dean asked. She crossed her arms over her chest and stumbled back. Sam caught her. "Mari?"
"Ggghhhnn," she moaned as she went red in the face.
"Mari?" I asked worriedly.
"Speak?" Lasercorn asked. I growled at him and he backed away.
She moaned again and looked down. Sam picked her up from the waist and put her gently on the sofa. "So I'm guessing its KnightGates. What is he doing?" Sam asked in frustration.
"Sam, you think you can get out and...You know," Dean said. Sam nodded and logged off. Guessing he was going to try to track the other set of Nerve Gear that Mari is in.
"Ugh," Mari grunted as she put more pressure on her chest. "S-Sohi-" she tried to say, but she was in pain.
I hate this. What can I do? "Joven, you got any ideas?" I asked.
"Uh...No... The only explanation is that he's putting a lot of pressure on her chest, or near the chest area." He suggested. "He could just be leaning on her, or the other thing, if you get what I mean..."
"Joven!" Lasercorn said loudly, "dont be so sick minded."
"Hey, we're all thinking it," he protested. "Dont try to deny it."
We all agreed. Mari's breathing became rapid. A chuckle was heard in the background. I turned around to see KnightGates standing with a big smirk plastered across his face.
"You're right, I was and now I've put a crate over her chest. So I would think that it's hard to breath." He chuckled.
"You sick bastard," I growled. "Get it off her now!"
"Why would I do that?" He asked. "You're the ones who gave me the idea."
"Hey KnightGates," Dean said. "I know something that'll make her feel insecure."
"Dean!" I shouted.
Steve just laughed. "And what's that?" He asked.
"If you tickle underneath her chin, it makes females feel really insecure and uncomfortable," he said. "It's been scientifically proven."
"Why would you tell him that?!" Lasercorn shouted.
"Hmm. Really? Interesting," Steve smirked.
"But it'll only happen if you get that crate off her, so she's not distracted by the pain and fear of that." He told.
"Very interesting," he smirked. "Fine. Give me a minute."
He disappeared. Dean ran over to Mari who was still gasping for air and whispered something in her ear. The crate was lifted and she could breath again.
"Oh thank goodness," I sighed as I ran up to her and hugged her.
"T-That felt horrible," she stuttered as she hugged me back and breathed a bit faster than usual. She became rigid and fell back, causing her to lie down backwards on the sofa.
"What's happening now?" I asked.
"He's tickling her chin," Dean simply said with a straight forward expression. He went on his phone and texted me.
"It's not really scientifically proven, just something I made up. I asked her to act like it's making her feel insecure and a bit frightened. She's doing a good job too." It said. I sighed quietly in relief.
I told Joven and Lasercorn what Dean had texted me. They sighed in relief too.
(Mari's POV)
I hate this, I absolutely despise it. Why would he almost kill me?! I didn't do anything wrong! Did I? Damn, hopefully I didn't.
"How does it feel?" Dean asked. I couldn't reply, for one thing I didn't know how to answer, second, I was still trying to catch my breath. Lastly, I'm meant to be acting like this is making me frightened and insecure. I just shook my head. He finally stopped and left me alone.
"Got it," Sam appeared. Sohinki and Dean smiled.
"Great," they said, then all three of them looked at me.
Huh? What's so great? Why are they looking at me? Am I apart of it?