The shadows:

Kimichi leaned against the wall at her quarreling friends. In the living room everyone was talking and Kimichi was listening. So far she wasn't liking what she was hearing.

In the living room the group of people discussed the situation that they were in.

"How in the hell are we gonna get out of here?" Lighting sharply spoke. "We sure as hell can't stay here forever."

"Don't be like that lightning." Sarah calmly stated. "We still need to figure out exactly where we are first." Sarah had her hands folded gently in her lap, while lighting was on the edge of her seat and slouching slightly.

Maki looked around and he whispered to Yuuj, "I think everyone is on edge."

Yuuj raised an eyebrow. "Thank you Dr. Obvious, you're diagnosis amazes me."

Sasuze looked at all of them, and he shook head. "If you ask me; it's not always gotta be about us. Right now we're here, and SOMETHING is attacking this...place, world, or whatever you wanna call it. There's also a girl here who knows where, and what is up."

Snow nodded and looked at the others in his group. "I agree...we should talk about this with Kimichi."

Rose snorted. "It's probably her fault we got stuck here in the first place. Why should we even TALK to her?"

Sarah shook her head. "How do you do it's her fault?"

Rose tightened her jaw as she scowled at Sarah. "I just know. She's trouble. Most likely she's a spoiled brat who only wants what she wants, because she want it."

Lightning glared daggers at Rose. "What makes you think that's true?"

Rose scoffed. "I KNOW It's true. She's just a little brat who wants little 'toys' to play with and she'll do anything to get them! Even kidnapping."

Hope was looking from person to person, unsure of what to say in this situation.

Rose continued. "I mean really. Why would we even Be here if it wasn't for someone making the order?" Everyone went silent. Camelot whined in Roses lap, but did nothing more.

Kimichi couldn't believe what was being said.

Would they...agree? They weren't really disagreeing with Rose...Kimichi felt the tears in her eyes and she told Sora to go serve the tea.

Despair hadn't heard what anything the group had said in the other room.

He wanted to stop her, but Sora stopped Despair. "It's alright...she's...just upset."

Despair sighed and shook his head. "What happened?"

Sora narrowed his eyes and looked at the living room. "It seems you're group are judging a book by it's cover."

Despair looked at his group of friends...his colleagues. "What...what does that mean?"

Sora finished making the tea and placed it on the tray. That's when the echo of a door shutting sounded throughout the house.

"It means, they hurt a little girls feelings."

Despair raised his eyebrows, "Mind explaining?"

Sora sighed and went into the room. "Sorry to disturb your insults, but I have the tea." His voice had a pinpoint that stung everyone in the room.

Rose huffed. "How is it insulting if we're speaking the truth?"

Sora's face twisted into a grim expression, but it quickly became blank. He poured the tea, and he handed a cup to everyone...except Dodge. He got water.

"Kimichi...she's fifteen, much like Despair, and Hope. There are thing you do not know about her. This word for instance. It's a computer program made to be like the real world, and Kimi has been here since she was five."

Everyone gasped. Lighting spoke first. "And...what about you?"

Sora let out a hoarse laugh. "I'm simply a bunch of 0's and 1's. I'm a figment of Kimi's imagination. Designed to help her with every need."

No one spoke, but Sora was relentlessness with scolding them. "You just made a child more alone than ever. She wanted friends. Her father got her the one's she wanted, and what do you do? Say she's a spoiled brat, make her seem selfish for only wanting to not be alone."

Everyone looked at each other still confused on what Sora was trying to say. Sora pinched the bridge of his nose, and breathed in slowly, "Just think of Kimichi as a ticking time bomb...and you guys just lit the fuse."

That got everyone to react.

Kimichi ran, ran, and ran. She didn't want to go back...not to the place where everyone hated her... where they would continue to call her names...maybe they would even call her a freak like that one scientist of father...

The green grass felt soft under her feet, but she didn't feel it. Faster...she had to run faster...With every step she took, was a step away from the people she once had wanted to be her friends.

Farther and farther, she ran. She didn't look back. Her feet had a mind of their own as they ran across the field.

It was poor planning for Kimichi, because she didn't even feel it when she tripped and landed on the ground. It hurt, but that didn't really matter to Kimichi.

Soon, she saw dark masses making ways towards her and she didn't get up, she didn't so anything. "Shadows..." She whispered.

Sora tensed all of a sudden, something was wrong... something was outside.

"For the love of... please please please do NOT let it be shadows..."

He stood up and rushed over to the door and opened it quickly a string of curses flowing from his lips, when he saw the dark masses around something...and no doubt that something was Kimichi. He reached into his pocket and took out something similar to a gun. When he pulled back a lever to load it, sparks of white and blue lights appeared.

Kimichi wasn't doing anything...why would it matter? Sora thought. Grimacing as he ran to go save his friend. If she dies, the people she wanted to be friends so very much with would be okay. She closed her eyes as the shadows murmured in their own unique language.

"Don't you dare touch Kimichi!" Sora yelled as he aimed his gun. With a pop he pulled the trigger and a bolt of lightning billowed out of it shredding the shadows, the kick pushing him back.

The shock wave disheveled Kimichi's hair. Still, she didn't get up from where she was lying down. Those of the shadows that were unaffected were smart for once and retreated.

"Kimichi..." Sora whispered calmly and he walked over to the young girl, and crouched down to move the hair out from her face.

"You know it's dangerous out here..let's go back inside and I'll make you you're favorite desert after we eat okay?

She nodded a little, her eyes blank and it broke Sora's heart. He only saw her like this only once...it was after an argument she had, had with her father, one of his assistants had called her a freak. She had been denied on coming home as well...she felt abandoned, and a freak that needed to be locked away.

Kimichi walked to the house slowly, her eyes trained on the ground.

When she reached the door, everyone was looking at her with concern, Rose crossed her arms across her chest with a disapproving look. "Serves you right you selfish brat.." She muttered under her breath.

Kimi froze, then passed them and headed up the stairs, her movements sluggish, sad. When she reached the top her shoulders shook, but then stopped continuing her trek to wherever she was going.

Despair couldn't believe this, he opened his mouth, but Sora was way ahead of despair.

A resounding sound of skin against skin echoed in the entrance-way of the mansion. Rose had a hand on her cheek that was quickly turning red from where Sora had slapped her, his face was a twist of absolute anger.

"If I hear one more word that even SUGGESTS you insulting Kimichi, I will kick you out of this house and throw you to the shadows. They will destroy you WITHOUT mercy. This isn't a game. Those things are a virus that kill whatever they touch. Once you've been touched. You're dead. No second chances, no begging for forgiveness. AM. I. UNDERSTOOD?" His voice was calm, strong firm, and frightening. His face was a mask of calm as he spoke.

Everyone now was afraid of Sora and they all nodded even though the statement was only spoken to Rose.

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