Out in the Night
The moonlight shown through the window in the room as May impatiently paced about. She was a little bit worried about sleeping in this room with Shi sleeping next door. She looked over at Melody who was as fast asleep as she could possibly be. She really couldn't sleep, she didn't understand how Melody could. She would've expected her to at least by a little bit anxious about the war or at the very least the fact that Xander, Shi, and two other boys were sleeping in the room next to them. May examined the multiple locks that Melody kept in place to keep Shi out, May sighed as she undid them and walked out of the room and to the living room down the flight of stairs.
May walked down and sat herself down on the couch. She flipped through the television shows as she laid out there on the couch. She laid her head on her hands and started to get bored. She wished she was back at her room, as far as things to do were concerned, her room was filled with more interesting items. Ordinarily she would be busy with checking and shuffling through her clothes, but now she couldn't. She was starting to fidget in the couch as she thought about her own closet. She sighed as she stood up and approached the door. She opened the door and stepped out. It would be a quick 10 minute jaunt at the worst. She'd be there and back and since the war hasn't started yet, there would be no problem. It made perfect sense to her to run out of here if she couldn't sleep and go back to her place to get some things that would help her. After all, if she didn't get any sleep she definitely wouldn't be of any help to the rest of the group. These and a thousand other rationalization rushed through her head as she tried to figure out whether or not she should risk running out of there just to go home, but something told that despite all of these reasons it still wasn't a good idea. Regardless of that thought, she left anyways.
Considering everything it would probably be even better as there would be no other jerks or other problematic people gathered around and messing with her. This would be a very quick thing, she continued to rationalize. She'd just run over there, grab some more of her things and slip back in. Nobody would ever even know that she went missing. She grabbed a flashlight and dodged out of the house and was on her way in moments.
The streets were still all well lit. While it made little sense since most people were comfortably in bed right now, sleeping and snoring, but Lord Death demanded it where they can keep their eyes out for Kishins. May kept herself alert as she looked left to right. Her eyes continuing darting from one alleyway to the next, with nothing more than a pile of garbage or a stray cat. She had no option though, while right now it made no sense due to the lack of dangerous items down the alleys, but she knew that the moment she saw a Kishin crouching in one of the alleys, she'd thank her stars that she did this mundane scan.
She never noticed how eery Death City was. She should've put it together from the name alone, (Death City, like that wasn't asking for any bad news), but the city as vastly transformed at night. The houses she would've strove past by during the day suddenly became haunted, the stray cats had shadows the size of mountain lions, and the laughing sun had been replaced with such a psychotic moon! She grumbled as she jogged down the path, she didn't want to spend one extra second out here then she had to.
Her apartment came in to view just a little bit ahead of her. She raced off with renewed speed as she past more and more buildings. She got to the doorsteps fairly quickly. She fumbled around in her pocket in search of her keys. Her hand passed by her wide-selection of make-up and the like. Finally, she managed to wrap her finger around her keys. Her hand was still shaking in panic from the depressing atmosphere of the night. She gently inserted the key into the lock and twisted it, as soon as she heard the door unlock itself she forced it open with all of her might and barged in. She didn't waste a second in spinning back around and re-locking her doors, just to be safe. There was no such thing as too safe if you are a young woman...during the middle of the night...in a war...with blood-thirsty demons outside. May double-checked to make sure the locks were all secure.
She returned to scouring through her room. She breathed a heavy sigh of relief as she was returned to her own sanctuary. The closet she had here was twice the size of Melody's, if not more. Her bed was lavishly decorated with all of her things. Her miscellaneous items were scattered about the room. This was definitely her room. She pulled things aside and into a small bag as she checked to make sure she got everything that she needed. Some of these things were less then essential, but she felt the need to grab them just in case. They ranged from extra sets of clothes, a couple of CDs and her CD player, and finally she also stuffed some of her comfort food into her bag. With her bag being properly filled she slung it back over her shoulder and headed towards the door.
(-With the boys-)
Shi and Xander were both huddled against the wall with a glass pressed against it trying to listen in to the girls. Finally, Shi and Xander both pulled back and smiled. They set their glasses down onto the floor. "The pacing finally stopped!" said Shi with gleeful determination. Ash's hand sneaked past them and grabbed onto the glasses pulling them away from the two miscreants. He took out a small wash cloth and immediately cleaned the two glasses without them noticing.
Shi disappeared into his closet busying himself inside the closet. Michael was already stretched out in a nearby chair, he had firmly decided that no matter what Shi and Xander were planning, he didn't want to be a part of it. Ash didn't trust them to keep the place clean, so he really couldn't sleep out of a panic. Instead he stood up and sat next to them cleaning whatever they decided to discard. He finally restored the glasses to their original luster. He put the glasses down and sat back waiting to see what the next thing they would dirty would be.
Finally Shi reappeared from the closet producing a large cart. It had a long cord sticking out at the front. Shi wheeled the cart to the wall and stuck the cord into the wall. He smiled as he turned it on. A small red light lit up. A small portable TV screen that was attached to the cart lit up. An image of Melody's room came to light. Xander and Shi both watched it intently, waiting to see what was going on in the room. "After years of research and planning, I have finally built the perfect spy device! Best of all, the timing is even better! Now I get two girls for the price of one!"
"Ordinarily, I'd be opposed to this after all women are our equal and this is just disrespectful to their rights, but I'll make a rare exception to my own rules and regulations due to our own comradeship, but this might possibly be a once-in-a-lifetime chance," stated Xander trying to sound like the reasonable man who was being roped into the shenanigans, despite being just as interested as Shi.
"I don't always admit this," stated Ash as he took a cloth washcloth and began to clean the miniature computer screen, "but I'm a clean freak." Ash backed away and examined the screen before he began to clean it again, "so, as this is probably the dirtiest thing you two have ever conspired together to build, I am going to have to politely...LOOK AT ALL THE DIRT IN HER ROOM!" shouted Ash as he jumped backwards, an expression of utter horror on his face, "how the hell am I going to sleep knowing that's next door?"
Michael shifted about in his seat as he woke up. "Really? Still trying to spy on the girls at..." Michael turned around at the clock which read 12:48. "After midnight...am I the only one who is taking the war with the Kishins thing seriously?" Michael stretched his arms and legs, once more due to habit then requirement as he shuffled his feet ff of the chair and onto the floor. He walked over to the machine and looked at it... "where's May?"
"Ooh hoo hoo hoo!" whistled Xander, "looks like somebody is interested in spying on the girls after midnight. Screw the war!" Xander returned his attention to the screen and budged Shi. Shi quickly returned to the controls and began to move it about. As the small camera head swiveled about, they found nothing. No sights of May, just Melody a motionless lump in the bed.
"Damn..." muttered Michael as he stood up and headed towards the door, "I'm going to go find May. Anyone coming?" Ash took another look at the screen and with a shiver his hand shot up, anything was better then staying this close to a mess like that. Xander and Shi shared the same look of quiet judgment for their colleagues. They shook their heads and returned their attention to the screen. Michael sighed and walked back over to the machine he brought his fist up and right back down upon the machine crushing it with his golem arm. "Anyone coming?" Michael asked again. Both Shi and Xander grumbled an 'I guess'.
The four of them grabbed a flashlight for each of them and set out. Shi taking his time writing a small note for Melody and sliding it under her door. They all bolted out of the room and into the streets all of them rushing behind Michael as he led the way to May's apartment. Their footsteps were clanging loudly against the stone pathway as they bolted together down through the street ways. They were moving quite steadily through the streets, none of them making sound, all of their focus was on getting to May's and back as quickly as possible.
"STOP!" shouted Ash as he dodged to the left, tackling Xander and knocking him to the ground. Both Michael and Shi managed to drop to the ground in time. A long chain with an spiked iron ball spun around above them.
"Crap, what the hell was that?" muttered Xander as he stood up and grabbed onto Ash's arm. Xander's body shrunk down and wrapped around Ash's hand forming a sharp bladed gauntlet. "How the hell did the Kishin get so far in without setting off any alarms? Besides, I didn't think Kishins could even use weapons!"
"We are going to have to split up," grumbled Michael, "Shi return back home to Melody and wake her up. I have a feeling it will only be a few more minutes until the sirens go off. Even worse the Kishins would probably even move in and start attacking houses at random. Xander and Ash will back me up on the way to May's house. If possible stay at Melody's house and wait for us to get come and join you. If not" Michael paused and looked around him. He stopped and pointed at the school's gym, "go there, chances are a teacher is stationed there protecting, got it?" Shi nodded.
"Let's go!" shouted Ash jumping up ready to go. Shi broke off from the group racing back to the house. Ash and Xander turned about and faced the direction in which the spiked iron ball came from. Ready to face whatever would come next.
Definitely troublesome moments for the group. Michael and May are separated and Melody is asleep. Only Ash and Xander are fully functional right now. And who in the world is attacking them? How could somebody slip in through the defenses of Death City without setting off any alarms? It looks like the real war is finally beginning.
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