The room stayed still for a few seconds, until Ayumu started to rise up out of her seat and levitate in the air. There was another pause and suddenly a wave of energy burst from within the glow, blasting the seats back and throwing the entire audience into a chaotic mess. The hall erupted into screams and everyone rushed for the exits, but I was more concerned about where the others were. I managed to free myself from under a chair and saw Haruhi on the floor, staring up at Ayumu with excited eyes.

"Look, Kyon! I told you she was an alien! I just knew it! Where's Kona-"

"No, Haruhi! We have to get out of here, now!" I exclaimed, grabbing her arm and trying to pull her up. She wasn't going anywhere.

"No way, Kyon! What's wrong with you? Don't you wanna see her awesome power as much as I do?!"

There was another pulse of energy, although this time it was a more sustained force, and I noticed it was trying to pull us closer to Ayumu. That was when I saw her face.

Whatever it was, it wasn't Ayumu. The creature seemed human, but its arms and legs were stretched to a disturbing length and its head, however, was insect-like in its appearance. Behind it I could scarcely make out a pair of wings, like those you'd see on a fly, and as I stared further, hundreds of tentacles began to emerge from its back and torso. The body, I realised, looked like it was spiralling inward, the glow at its centre, and I felt as though Haruhi and I were being sucked inside...

"Wake up, idiot!"

I heard a loud thump from in front of me, and I realised that Jotaro had appeared, as if from nowhere. His body was surrounded by a purple aura, and he was struggling to hold back the tentacles of the creature from reached Haruhi and me. I shook my head, grabbed her and dived out of the way, as Jotaro let go of the tentacles and dodged as they burst forward, slamming into the floor at horrific speed. I looked around and saw Koizumi standing by Miss Asahina, holding her to stop her from being pulled into the pink glow. Still holding Haruhi, who was straining to get a look at the monster, I managed to drag myself over to them.

"Koizumi, what the Hell is happening?" I yelled. The creature was giving off a loud, horrible sound.

"Well, Ayumu...it looks like Ayumu was being used by that thing. I had no idea, I never would have thought that she was just a puppet..." Koizumi yelled back. He seemed utterly confused.

The creature turned to us again, before firing another barrage of tentacles our way. This time it was Nagato who rushed in front, somehow slicing the tentacles off without even moving. Kujo took over, and I saw some of the purple aura break from his body, form a pair of hands and grab two more barrages of tentacles. The tentacle swarm had now grown to blot out the entire theatre, and the glow was as huge as it had been the first time, and was spiralling inward rapidly. I covered Haruhi's eyes and looked away from it myself, trying as hard as I could to hold onto the floor.

"I have transferred a data file into this room that is large enough to encompass the creature's further growth." Nagato said, her voice somehow rising above the noise of the monster while still sounding emotionless. "It should not take very long to-"

And then her voice began to trail off into silence. Confused, I turned to Koizumi, who was also trying, in vain, to talk.

"Kyon..." I heard Haruhi say. Turning to her, I realised she looked as confused as I saw myself, as out-of-character as it was for her. "Wh...what's going on? What's happening to Nagato and the others...?"

"Don't ask me..." I stuttered back. As I looked, their bodies glowed with the same pink light that the monster was giving off, and soon began to fade away. I turned around in fear, to see that the monster was distorting and twisting- its whole body was being pulled into the glowing spiral, and no matter how hard I clung onto the floor, I soon felt myself and Haruhi being pulled off it.

Within seconds, we accelerated into the spiral at an intense speed, reaching the centre within seconds where the last thing I saw before I lost consciousness was an immense shining light, twice as blinding as the one before it.