Everything was quiet.
Calm.
Relaxing.
I sat on the couch and relaxed for a second…then I realized:
SOMETHING MUST BE HORRIBLY WRONG! Nothing is ever quiet! I walked out onto the balcony and closed my eyes, enhancing my exquisitely sensitive hearing.
EVERYTHING was quiet.
No car horns, no ambulances or police, no talking, no footsteps, none of the normal sounds of the city.
Just nothing.
I had only heard of this happening on Earth once before…and that time…
I looked up at a scarlet moon. The Dark Ones had gotten loose. Shards of memory flashed.
War.
Then lightning struck and rain began pouring down. Sound filled everything. I knew whatever had been here had now gone back to the Underworld. One more horrible thing I know is…
I can't feel Ikuto or Utau's presence anymore.
'Utau! Utau!' I called out with my mind.
'Amu? Amu, what's going on? Where are we? I'm scared!'
'What happened?'
'I went home, Ikuto and I were watching TV, then the screen froze…Everything froze! Then I started to feel weird and everything went black. When I woke up we were at this huge rock!'
'A rock?!'
'Yeah! In the middle of the forest! We went through it! It was so weird!'
'So Ikuto is with you?'
'Yeah, he hasn't woken up yet.'
'I'm coming Utau, just hold on!' I answered jumping off my balcony and running, at an inhumanly fast speed, toward the "rock" she was talking about.
'Amu? What is going on?'
I sighed. I guess it would be wrong not to explain, since their neck-deep in it all now. 'I don't have much time to explain…hundreds of years ago, Vampires actually lived normally with humans…without keeping ourselves secret. However, some of us thought we should enslave the Earth. We labeled them the Forsaken and trapped them in a charmed jail in the Underworld- which is where you are now, by the way. Anyway, after that Vampires were ordered to stay in our own realm.
I was sent to Earth to protect humans in my "area". I told you I was fighting "vampires in a craze", but that's not exactly it. The Vampires are usually tainted by the Forsaken. '
'So what does all of that mean?'
'It means the Underworld is now in the middle of a battle between good and evil, and I'm afraid you and your brother are now in the middle of it. I don't know who kidnapped you, but whoever it was it's no surprise they want me dead.'
'Why?'
'Once my mother, the queen of our realm, dies, I will be ruler. Whoever it is doesn't want that to happen.'
'Oh,'
I stepped through the portal. I always hated doing this. It felt like ice was run across every inch of my being, through every hair, I shivered. The destruction to the city was horrendous; fires, shattered glass, destroyed homes, dead bodies everywhere, some wearing red, and some wearing black. Sorry Utau, but I need to talk to my mother before I come to get you.
I ran, slashing black cloaked monsters in my way, up until I had passed the guards into my mother's castle.
*UTAU*
It's cold in here. I looked around the cement box we were caged in. I'm scared…Amu please hurry!
I heard Ikuto groan as he finally woke up, he sat up taking in everything. "Where in the hell are we?"
I told him everything Amu had told me.
"And of course Amu will walk straight into this person's trap." He sighed.
"We don't have anything to do with this though! We're mortal!" I yelled.
"On the contrary," we both flipped around to see…Amu? At first I was overjoyed, but then I looked at her closer.
*AMU*
"Hello mother,"
"Amu! Darling!" She ran up to me kissing me on the forehead. "I'm sure you've heard of the slight war."
"Barely,"
"Well, do you remember that prophecy I told you long ago."
"Oh, that wonderful one where my sister and I both die?" I asked sarcastically.
"Yes, but I finally understand all of it." She turned and walked to the window. "Umae is in charge of the Forsaken."
*UTAU*
This wasn't Amu. She had dark red eyes and was very pale…and not as pretty.
"Who are you?" Ikuto said at the same time I screamed:
"What do you want?"She grinned evilly.
"I am Hinamori, Umae, Amu's twin sister. I hear she's quite fond of you two."
"That didn't answer the second question." I said.
"Do I need to spell it out for you blondey?" She grinned. "You're here to bring her here. It's time for her to die. I will beat that stupid prophecy!"
"You're going to kill your own sister?!" I screamed in disbelief. Ikuto had gone pale.
"Well of course! She is the enemy after all. She wouldn't be if she hadn't of left me all alone to go on her goody-goody little mission. Well, goodbye then." She turned and walked out re-locking the door behind her. Ikuto looked around again…
"Ugh, it's like being trapped by Easter all over again."
*AMU*
I just stood there staring at her. How could she? No way, this had to be a misunderstanding…
"I know it's hard to believe…but after you left the Forsaken got a hold of her. They brainwashed her into thinking she hated you for leaving, into thinking they were the good side."
"So Umae and I kill each other in this battle." I said mostly to myself.
"Then I'll have to get Ikuto and Utau out of here before she finds me."
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IKUTO: IF AMU DIES I WILL MURDER YOU.
AMU: YOU UNDERESTIMATE ME.
UTAU: JUST GET ME OUT OF THIS FRIKIN DUNGEON!!!
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