~Mal's side~
*Tap tap tap tap tap tap*,D was able to clearly hear the sound of bue's clicking from the heel of her flats and turned to face her for when she'd appea- *WAM* Bue had done a run jump and kick move, it was successful seeing as the fact that D now had a big red mark on his face in the shape of bue's shoe. He plummeted to the ground with a big impact. Knocking him for a daze, bue got on her knees beside mike and he looked at her sadly. Bue looked back but didn't have the same expression, when she saw mal…. At first she had just a blank and calm look as her body language was showing that she didn't care….then her face became angry. Her teeth sharpened, her eyes turned black, the dark under-eye circles returned, and so did her black aura. D got up and when he saw bue's true nature coming back to the surface, he smiled with delight and evil. Mike was frightened by bue's new expression while bue began to shake….almost like a vibration that might've been an illusion coming from her wavy aura that completely surrounded her. When she heard D starting to walk up to her, she quickly YANKED the knife out from mal's back making blood splatter upon her face and she turned around with just a split second for D to react, she threw the knife at D and it hit his left shoulder. Mike was absolutely, wondering now if bue was good or evil. D began to get up but bue didn't notice as she began to focus once more and mal progressively started to heal. A light was shining through from where bue was clearing the wound and it began to close, it was the first time she had tried this so the process was very slow despite the size of the small wound seeing as it was a dagger and not a huge kitchen knife. You're working awfully hard to save him, bue. You should quit worrying, he'll be fine, just relax and calm down… D told her telepathically, he had walked up and put his hands on her shoulders. Bue began to sweat, she almost looked behind her but then looked back at the bleeding body that she was tending to. She remained focused on mal and her anger began to cool, just then she felt a drop of something on her head, this time she couldn't resist turning to face what was behind her. D still had yet to take out the dagger from his shoulder and so the blood was dripping onto bue's head, she felt chills with every drop and this made D smile sadistically. To make it worse, he pulled the dagger out of his shoulder slowly making even more blood spill onto bue, once it was fully taken out it was pouring. Her face was now dripping with blood and her hair was soaked with some on her upper arms as well. "BUE!" Mike yelled, D purposely dropped the knife and let it fall directly in front of mike as he was moving to bue. The bloody knife made him completely freeze as another painful memory came back to him. When mal stabbed his father, while mike was sleeping with his personalities by his side, his dream was of him staring at the whole scene from the outside of his body near his mother as she screamed. Then when mal turned to face her….his face had multiple blood splatters and his father was in a pool of blood. He hadn't remembered the dream, mal must've gotten rid of it so that I would trust him….as a friend. Mike snapped out of it and saw that mal's wound had been closed and he was waking up. "M-mike?...bue?" He hadn't looked at bue yet and went to hug mike. Mike didn't hug him back, but mal didn't notice. Then he let go and saw bue...drenched in blood and D standing behind her with a huge bleeding gash from his shoulder, and for some reason bue wasn't doing anything about it. Mal grabbed her and pulled her away from D, she was out cold and drenched in blood. Mal closed his eyes and gause began to wrap around D's wound, he also made the knife disappear and sent bue off to mike's side with teleportation. Mike and mal got up to their feet to look D at a face-to-face level, though D was shocked and curious as to why mal would help his wound. "Simply because I care about the people around me, you and I both know that bue's violent but she'd never draw blood. I bet she got a sort of 'phobia' for it." Mal finished his thought aloud. D was growing more angry then, out of nowhere…*POW* Now there were two footprints on D's broken face. "THE HELL YOU'RE FIGHTIN' HIM WITHOUT ME!" "YEAH MATES, ME TOO!" Mike was ecstatic to see a real familiar face; Manitoba and a soaking wet, barefoot bue. "I only took a quick bath, took off ma' loud, clickin' shoes and teleported here an' brought manny with me." Bue's hair was sticking to her back and dripping with water and a little shampoo, she had changed her clothes and was holding manitoba by his collar...apparently, in order to bring an outsider to the other mind both have to remain in contact. She put a rubber band in her mouth and started to pull back her hair, getting annoyed with the wet back. Everyone was just staring at how different bue looked with her hair up, manitoba touched her head and a big, silk, red bow appeared. She knew something was in her hair but didn't know what as everybody started to laugh, she punched manitoba in the face which launched him into the sky as he twinkled then disappeared, she snapped her fingers and manitoba plummeted to the ground with a huge crash. Then mal laughed harder, mike had his hand over his mouth to try and control it. Then D got up and tried to ram bue and manitoba for kicking him, all of a sudden, he took a third blow to the head (the side this time), a huge metal shield(edge hitting his head, not the face of it.). It was going so fast that it nearly pierced the skull. D was barely standing until bue turned to see a woozy looking D, she saw the shield and decided to deliver the final blow. Everyone turned to face bue as she lifted her leg back, the same way it looks when she's about to use 'full force' and kicked his nuts as hard as she could, launching him into the sky as well. She looked over at everybody else, shaking with fear. Then they all saw D falling back to the ground until mike stepped up, closed his eyes and imagined…..mal's "Multi-ammo Cannon". It was already loaded and he began to fire viciously. D fell to the ground, charred then bue ordered the attack. They all pounced on him and began the fight, it looked like they were rolling around in a cliche, cartoon, fighting grey, dust cloud. D began to fade, as did the darkness to show a red tiled floor, light blue walls, a white ceiling, but there was no 'bedroom stuff'. No doors for storage of any of these items so it was just an empty soul less room, No wonder D went crazy, I would if I had to even spend just a day in here, let alone a couple years. Bue had the same thought and they both had looks of pity on their faces. "This is...D's room?" Mike asked breaking the silence. Just then, the room split in half as though a line had sliced it perfectly only, it didn't break. On the right where mal was standing, was the kitchen from mike's house and it showed the police lifting his father's body off the ground and on to the carrier and their steps were bloody since they hit the puddle. His mother stayed behind and fell to her knees while her legs were wobbling before they left. Once the door closed and she couldn't hear the sirens anymore, she let her head fall down, facing the bloody floor and started to sob. Mal didn't blink for a moment as his memories were on replay, his expression remained blank while manitoba tried to cover his eyes but mike kept his hand down with all his strength and watched with mal. Bue wasn't looking as her memories played...starting from after she encountered D with mal and all the things she did while under D's spells. She held herself as shivers went down her spine, feeling stupid for having such weak will power. Just then, their memories shattered like a glass being struck and was replaced with darkness, they all were engulfed in mere seconds. It was like there were no floors or walls, like they were floating on nothing, they all were scared but were still able to see each other clearly. This wasn't new to mal and bue but for some reason they felt more scared than mike and manitoba combined as they started to shake. "H-he's n-n-not d-dead y-y-yet…" mal and bue said in sync but in a soft tone. When manitoba turned to face the two he saw that their eyes were black and grabbed mike by his shoulder and dragged him back behind him for safety. They didn't do anything except shake in fear, "mal? bue?" Then a voice came crashing in on the frightened duo. Why are you so scared...after all...this IS your home, bue, mal. The booming voice in their heads told them, they both fell to their knees and covered their ears, worrying manitoba who was almost nauseous with fear. Mike, manitoba, I'm letting you go...you don't belong here.
NEITHER DO THEY!...Their hearts are good… Mike told the darkness aloud as he pointed at bue and mal who were now in a fetal position and shaking. Then manitoba tapped mike on the back and showed him a light, after it died down it revealed a hallway. Both of them knew where it went and paused. The light from the hallway turned off but you could still see it.
Their hearts are good… Mike repeated.
You don't believe me do you. The voice said, then mike turned to look at mal and bue as they slowly got up. They were at their knees when they all of a sudden got hit with something that made their chest pop out as though something struck their backs and it only pulled their backs forward, like when you're about to land face first and something or someone pushed you. (It's rather difficult to describe. like; when you've been pushed from behind and your chest comes forward in a way. I apologize if it's confusing.) Then an object appeared from the center of their chests, a sort of glowing orb. Mike knew what it was even though he was knocked out before he could see it clearly. It was bue's and mal's souls, mal's was dark blue and bue's was yellow. They both collapsed to the ground and their eyes turned blank, after mike came out of shock...he got a closer look. There seemed to be a small hazy black orb in the center of the souls and it had some streaks shooting out from it, almost like black lightning that wouldn't go any farther than the souls surface, it was like there was a visible virus inside of them.
You see? they're tainted….with darkness. It's a PART of them. Those aren't JUST souls...it's their 'core', the very embodiment of their being is in that orb. THAT'S why they're partly black, it's the darkness inside them….no matter how much they reject it, they can't fight it...and it won't go away. Mike was looking around in a panic to find where the voice was coming from. Then he felt two hands on his shoulders that were starting to make it's way to his neck, manitoba snapped out of his trance and noticed a frozen mike with hands coming toward his throat and grabbed one of the hands by it's wrist. Mike pushed the other hand away and went to stand by manitoba. D walked into view, "C'mon...did you really think it was someone else...I AM the darkness!" Mike went up to D slowly with no expression on his face then….he punched him in the face, bluntly right in the center, hitting his nose with great impact…. Mike's knuckles were bruised...just like mal's, he started to feel pity towards mal too. D wiped the blood from the nose and lunged at mike, who had no sign of fear in his face as he punched D in the stomach D did an upper cut. Mike fell back and manitoba helped him up while D was on the ground. Both manny and mike went over to give 'em more when all of a sudden...mal and bue's souls were right in D's hand in front of his chest and he began to chuckle as mike and manitoba froze dead in their tracks. The souls seemed to becoming more black, making D smirk, the two looked over at mal and bue's lifeless bodies and they were starting to fade. Mike saw the two fading but his expression remained emotionless, shocking D but manitoba ran over to them and tried poking their faces and stretching their cheeks, nothing. D began to laugh harder until it was maniacal while mike just stayed emotionless and manitoba panicked.
~Mike's side~
Chester had told them all to focus with great intensity especially since manny left. He was concentrating more on simply getting inside and so...with that, they were all in the board room. (previously, a dungeon...only now it has a big table, some chairs, and that cool "one light source room" so that it's all dark all around to create more dramatic effect.) They all had found themselves randomly sitting in seats for a table that could seat 20 and chester was at the head. Vito gave a look of sarcasm and slight surprise, svetlana was just amazed at what chester can do with his imagination. "ALRIGHT YOU NINNY'S TIME TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS!" Chester announced. This made the slouching two sit up straight like they were in a strict classroom and svetlana chimed in, "our team is starting to diminish,manitoba, mike und bue are gone, ve're eazily outnumbered." "Yeah and without bue and mal, how we gonna get to mal's si-" "D's side." Chester corrected, svetlana and vito both were shocked and worried. (Imagine those anime moments of surprise between the characters and how it'll show a close up of part of their faces one by one in separate sections until the screen has been filled...like that…) Svetlana tried to remain calm as she took a deep breath…. "VHAT DO YOU MEAN, D'S SIDE?! YOU CRETEN!" Vito looked at her, shocked as did chester. "Aye yo, how come we can't just 'imagine' the darkness barrier gone, huh?!" Vito asked while imitating chester. He got annoyed and hit vito with his cane for his sarcasm and svetlana for raising her voice without patience, they both held their heads from the bump that has now developed. "First off, mal and bue's souls have been acquired by D...if he were to damage them in any way...even a little scratch would make them disappear into the darkness and D would finally have what he wanted. As for the darkness itself, the barrier is too strong to go through even with our powers combined we wouldn't be able to break through to the other side unless we're escorted." "What about bue's telepathy and the teleportation." "The barrier." Chester responded bluntly, making vito sweat nervously as he felt so helpless, I'm supposed to be the tough guy 'round here! He thought but calmed down afterwards and his face changed to serious. "Zen...vhat's za plan?" Svetlana asked, folding her arms, chester looked down and sighed. "Have either of you got any brains in those air filled skulls of yours?!" He knocked vito's head again to emphasize his point. "We're gonna send a mirror over there to see what's going on so far-" "AND THEN WHAT?! JUST SIT AROUND HERE UNTIL IT'S OVER?!" Vito now had three bumps on his head. "YOU FOOLS! IF WE WERE TO CHARGE IN BLINDLY, LIKELY D WOULD LET US IN, IS THE PROBLEM!" Chester yelled at the both of them, making the two jump out of their seats. Svetlana mustered up the courage to ask him about his statement. "VHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'HE VOULD LET US IN', WHY IZ ZAT A PROBLEM?!" "BECAUSE!-...ugh...we could be trapped in there and if WE did…, the last people on mike's side were to disappear….what do YOU think would happen to this side, hmm?! "Vito and svetlana looked down in understanding. "Now then, we'll each send three at once." "...sure…." they both said in sync with their heads slumped down.