Marie hadn't really been paying any attention to the sudden change of weather, but that had changed. She pushed herself up, leaving her warm spot on the comfortable couch and placed herself next to her friend.
Marie frowned slightly. Pamela was usually a vivacious person, but right now she was quiet and looked bewildered. Both their eyes were gazing intensely at the sky, both for obviously different reasons. The previously flawless and calm sky had turned an ominous dark grey, and there were threateningly dark clouds swirling and colliding in vast humid pile-ups. Marie even noticed the change in wind directions. At one point the trees and leaves were moving north, and a mere second later the wind blew them south.
These kinds of things were normal when there was a thunderstorm coming, but Marie suddenly noticed something odd. In the front garden of her house, leaves were thrown south and north at the same time. Like the northern wind and the southern wind were clashing with each other. And it only happened right in front of their house, only a few feet away everything was the way it was supposed to be. At a certain point, she started to wonder if it was her brother causing these odd natural phenomena. But she shrugged it off. There was no way it was her brother doing this.
A few minutes later they were able to hear a distant sound of thunder. Pamela shrieked. Her facial expression was different. She looked terrified and her chest was going up and down very quickly.
"I see. You suffer from astraphobia." Marie said.
"I'm suffering from a-what?" Pamela replied whispering, as if she was scared the sound of her voice would trigger lightning.
"Astraphobia. The irrational fear of lightning and thunder." Marie explained, grinning. Pamela didn't reply and kept staring intensely at the sky.
"How would you know?" she suddenly muttered. Marie smiled and looked at Pamela. "Well, you're obviously feeling anxious!" Marie took Pamela's arm and held it up. "You're trembling." Marie passed a hand over Pamela's forehead "And you're sweating."
She felt Pamela's pulse. "And your heart is beating rapidly." The tone in Marie's voice sounded arrogant and defiant.
"You should get some help! In extreme cases, astraphobia can lead to agoraphobia, the fear of leaving the home. And I assume you don't want to stay in your house forever." Marie's voice didn't contain even the slightest hint of sympathy. Marie and Isaac both had a general lack of empathy and humility.
"Shut up!" Pamela cried in a pathetic, whimpering way.
"Pammy, don't worry! Lightning is just an atmospheric electrostatic discharge accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms!" Marie grinned.
"You're not helping!' Pamela screamed. She possessed a certain similarity with dogs. When dogs are driven into a corner and are feeling threatened, they usually bite or attack, and they mostly show extremely aggressive behaviors. When Pamela was mocked in a situation where she was anxious and uptight, she showed the same kind of behavior.
Suddenly lighting flashed, skeletal fingers of incandescence reaching down to strike the earth. Well, to be more exact, the lightning struck down on the house. Pamela screamed and grabbed Marie's arm, digging her long nails into her bare skin. Some of the nails went right through the flesh. Little drops of blood started trailing out and Marie bit her lip. The fake acrylic nails digging into her bare skin hurt badly.
"Please . . . let . . . go!" She hissed. When Pamela noticed what she was doing, she let go and whipped the blood off on Marie's oversized white tank top. Marie glared at her friend, mentally cursing her. Suddenly both of them heard screeching and resonating sounds coming from the basement. Marie acted immediately. She ran towards the door, she ran as fast as she could down the stairs but stopped when she found out what was going on downstairs. She didn't even notice the anxious screaming and squealing sounds coming from Pamela who had caught up with her.
"What the hell is that? " Pamela screeched. There, they both stood, frozen to the ground, staring at an immense black hole in the old brick wall.
"A black hole, I think!" Marie screamed back. It was hard to hear each other. Black holes are objects so massive and dense that their gravity sucks in anything nearby, including light and sound. Both the girls felt gravity trying to pull them into the immense hole. The black hole had a bright ring-like shape that gave off a glow, with a darker area inside. Both the ring and the area inside it represented light emitted by material falling into it.
"What's a black hole?" Pamela screamed in Marie's ear. It was the only way to hear each other in this crazy paranormal phenomenon.
"A black hole is a region of space-time from which nothing, not even light, can escape!" Marie screamed back.
"I'm sorry, I don't speak smartass!" Pamela yelled, and even in this madness Marie was able to spot a slight hint of sarcasm in the brainless girls' voice.
"It's kind of like the hole Alice fell in, you know in the movie Alice in wonderland." Marie explained."
"So this thing leads us to wonderland?" Pamela asked, dumbstruck.
"It's like talking to a chimp." Marie mumbled. Suddenly the black hole's gravity became more massive and started sucking in more. It was sucking everything in, tables, machines, conical flasks, light and even oxygen. Marie grabbed her friend and they both held onto a steel pipe that was stuck in the ground. The black hole's manifestation was merciless, its massive mouth seized anything nearby and left behind nothing but the two girls and an old, empty basement.
Suddenly everything became even stranger; the black hole stopped pulling things in! Both girl took a deep breath and felt the oxygen fill their lungs. There was light again and everything seemed to be back to normal. A shame Marie hadn't realized that it was just the silence before the storm. Out of nowhere there was an explosion of light, and instead of pulling everything in, things started gushing out. And I'm not talking about material things. The atoms of everything that was seized in were already torn apart. A strong wind, all the light it had sucked in, a wave of gravity smashed the two girls into the wall.
"What's . . . happe . . ." Pamela couldn't finish her sentence, the gravity was so thick and dense that it already hard to breath, not to mention talk. And then in a mere fraction of a second, four figures were thrown out of the black abyss and the black hole immediately closed behind them.
The two girls were both too busy regaining their breath and getting up to notice that four figures were staring at them from within the dark shadows.
"Ah!" Pamela suddenly screeched. Marie, who was still rubbing her eyes because of the sudden light, stopped immediately and swiftly turned her head around to see what was wrong with her friend.
"My hair is such a mess!" Marie sighed and knew it was meaningless to even comment about it. And she had just noticed that they weren't alone in the room anymore. She grabbed Pamela's wrist and pointed at the four figures that were hiding in the shadows.
"We've got company." Marie whispered silently.
"About fucking time you noticed us!" One of the figures yelled. He sounded annoyed, but it was quite difficult to figure that out since there was a certain distance. Marie just stood there, trying to figure out who they might be and what had just happened. There was a certain possibility that her brother had somehow opened a portal to another multiverse and got sucked in himself. Seeing that those four human sized figures were spit out of the portal meant that there was a theoretical possibility that her little brother wasn't torn apart the moment he got sucked up in the black hole, and might be in one of the other thousands multiverses. And it was highly possible that it was the multiverse these people were from. But it was still unknown to Marie who they were; she couldn't get a clear vision.
"Listen up you . . ." Before Pamela could finish that sentence Marie slapped her hand in front of her mouth and glared at her.
"You brainless idiot! You don't know who they are, or what powers they might have and yet you are about to insult them?" Pamela with her pervasive pattern of grandiosity just couldn't shut her hole and ignored the warning of her highly intelligent friend, thinking that she had watched too many geeky movies and had read too many of those stupid childish comic books. And so she went ahead anyway.
Maybe she would have been smart in some other parallel universe, but in this one, she absolutely was not. She would have observed the strange behavior of the unknown figured before screaming at them. But it was clearly obvious she did not.
"Look you freaks, just get the fuck out of your stupid emo corner and leave this fucking house, or I'll swear to god, I'll go get Isaac's death ray and . . ." Again, she was unable to finish her sentence. But this time, it was because of a whole different cause.
It was because it was kind of impossible to talk when someone was decapitating your head from your body. For Marie it had all happened so slowly, the silver haired guy and his triple bladed scythe came at them with inhuman speed and tore her flesh apart. He had only needed one deadly move. Razors on her skin, tearing her flesh in the most violent way. His laughter and his feral grin. A red liquid spewed out of Pamela as her beheaded body roughly crashed onto the floor. Marie stared in horror at the man in front of her. A sick smile spread on his face.
Eyes lighting the darkened sun. Tears slowly started trailing down her cheeks. Bringing him even more satisfaction. The sickest sound of them all, was that laugher of his. Filled with pure delight after such a dreadful view. The guy turned his back to them and snorted mockingly. "And what? You'll kill me?" his voice full of taunts. And then it finally hit Marie. He was Hidan. A member of Akatsuki, a fearsome criminal organization in Naruto. It made perfect sense! The way he looks, the taunting way he talked, the almost unnoticeable childish behavior, the fact that he had just brutally killed Pamela and already seemed to have forgotten her. And the fact that her little brother Isaac didn't really enjoy anything but science, except Anime, of course! And he especially loved the Naruto manga. So it would make sense if he had opened a portal to the Naruto universe, wouldn't it?
Suddenly Marie noticed she was crying and was kneeling down on the bloody floor, next to Pamela's dead body. She really had been in her own thoughts, Marieland, as Isaac called it, and she hadn't even noticed what her body had been doing. It was reacting to how she felt. Unlike her mind, that had just been figuring out what had happened and what was going on. Ignoring the sickening sight and the fact that she had blood all over her. It almost felt like those two were two separate things, moving on their own. It was true that Humans are emotionally constructed beings. Most people are incapable of thinking logically in emotional situations. For it is in the wild disarray and dramatic disturbances of mortality, that fatality is awoken. People leave; this she had always understood, even from a very young age. But Pamela? Marie had never expected Pam to leave so suddenly, so . . . dramatically. The logical façade, the foundation that walled in her emotions like a concrete barrier crumbled. It all crumbled because Pam had just been slaughtered in front of her. It triggered a complete emotional breakdown. Inside Marie's consciousness, she was left to wallow in dark emptiness; a black hole of self-loathing and sadness.
Everything had such an huge impact on her that she had forgotten her surroundings and more importantly, the people surrounding her. The people that had brutally slaughtered her friend and were about to knock her out.
And so the four criminals did. Kisame only needed a slight movement to knock the girl out.
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