Hello everyone and welcome back to HellFall!

Man, this last week just breezed by. Not that it was easy, but it feels like it went by really quickly.

"I'll get it." Nicole said, setting down her guitar and standing up, "It's my house. Chances are they're looking for me"

She went to the door and opened it up. I stayed where I was at the grand piano, my fingers hovering just above the keys. I looked up at the top of the piano, which was held open by a metal rod.

"Okay" I heard Nicole say, stepping into the room. Two men walked in, both wearing suspicious-looking black trench coats with the collars pulled up past their mouths. I eyed them curiously, wondering who they could be.

"They're from the Atlas police department." Nicole said, "They want to make sure that you are legally allowed to be here"

"Oh," I said, standing up, "hold on. I'll get my parents' note. It has their signature on it too" I started upstairs and the police officers didn't say or do anything. They simply watched me head up the stairs.

Reaching my room I looked through my closet and found the note in a suitcase on the floor. When I returned downstairs there was only one police officer, and Nicole had gone too.

"Here you are" I said, handing the man the note. He took it and looked it over. "So where'd your partner go?" I asked, curious. "And did you see where Nicole went too?"

His gaze altered to look down at me, almost robotically. In an instant his hand was on my mouth, and I couldn't breathe. I reached up and grabbed his hand, trying desperately to pull it off. It was no use, his grip was hard. Activating my semblance, I put all my power into getting out from his grip. Slowly, his hand eased up, until eventually I completely yanked it off. Sliding away from him, I caught my breath. He straightened, turning to stare down at me.

"Where's Nicole?" I panted.

No response. Instead he started walking towards me. I scooted backwards, trying to get away from him. He walked faster than I could slide, so I stood and backed away, passing through an empty doorway. As he neared I reached to my sides for Barbed Gustav. It wasn't there. Looking up I saw that he was very close to me now.

Turning around I ran to the knife rack. As I ran for it he wrapped his thick arms around my neck. I grabbed his arms, activating my semblance and pushing my aura to the limit. I threw myself out from under his arms and around until my legs wrapped around his neck. He reached up and grabbed me, trying to pull me off. I twisted my legs, hearing a loud crack! and sliding off. His body fell limp to the ground.

I stared down at him in horror. I'd just killed him. I've never killed a person before, I thought, terrified, less of the consequences and more of how it'd affect my mentally.

Even after catching my breath I sat on the ground, staring at the body. Finally I snapped out of it, realizing the task at hand. I needed to find Nicole and the other 'police officer'. Running to the window, I saw a car parked there, with a figure in the front seat. Focusing on him, I was able to see that it was the second man.

Almost as soon as I arrived at the window, however, he opened the door and got out. A gun came from his coat, and he aimed it at me. I ducked, hearing a bullet fly silently over my head and the glass window shatter.

The door was broken open, and he walked into the instrument room. I lifted a guitar over my head and brought it down on his, knocking him to the ground.

Kicking his gun away, I leapt onto him, wrapping my legs around his body and bringing my face close to his. Yanking down his collar, I asked:

"Who are you?"

He stared up at me, not responding. I punched him in the face, twisting his nose and making it bleed.

"Why are you here?" I demanded. In my anger my semblance activated yet again, and I felt my aura draining quickly. It would be completely gone soon.

He choked, and I saw that his mouth was void of anything. No teeth, no tongue, nothing. Just a dark tunnel at the end.

I was so surprised that I fell backwards off of him. It was partly from feeling so weak too. My consciousness slipped away almost immediately.

I awoke later in the back of a car. My mouth was covered, and my hands were tied behind my back. Sitting up, I looked around. The car was long. I was sitting in the third row of seats from the front. The seats were back-to-back with the second row of seats, where I saw Nicole lying on her side.

I tried to reach out, but my hands were tied. When I tried to yell, only a small sound came out. The driver glanced back, but didn't make a sound.

Turning around, I tried to find out what was confining my hands. It was a simple strip of cloth. Struggling for a few moments until my hands slipped out from it, I pulled my mouth cover off and went back to Nicole.

"Hey," I whispered, shaking her, "wake up"

I heard the driver cock a gun, which made me slink back to my seat in fear. After a moment I returned to Nicole and kept shaking her. Eventually she grumbled, her eyes opening slightly.

I raised my finger to my lips, signalling to be quiet. She sat up, glancing back at her makeshift handcuffs, then at the driver and the rest of the car.

I pointed to her hands. She adjusted herself so that I could pull them off. After she'd pulled her mouth cover off she glanced back at the driver. I slid back into my seat in the third row, signalling for her to follow me with my finger.

She climbed over, joining me in the back. "What's going on?" She asked quietly.

"I'm not sure." I replied, "They kidnapped us, I know that"

"No duh," she replied, looking back, "where's the other one?"

I paused, remembering what had happened. "I killed him" I replied.

She stared at me for a second, surprise on her face. "You did what you needed to." She finally whispered, "We all do it eventually, in this line of work at least"

I nodded, knowing that she was right.

She looked over the seat again at the driver.

"He's got a gun" I whispered.

"That complicates things" Nicole said, looking around. Outside we could see passing buildings shrouded in darkness.

"It's pretty late" she pointed out.

Just then my stomach growled loudly. We hadn't eaten dinner yet.

The driver fired a round into the seat soon after.

We both jumped, surprised. There was a bullet hole straight through the middle of the seat. Luckily, we were seated on either end of it.

"What do we do?" I whispered, quieter than before.

"I don't know" Nicole replied, glancing back over the seat. The driver fired another round, closer to her.

"We need to get that gun" I said.

"How?" she asked.

I glanced over the seat, seeing him holding the gun pointed at us while he stared at the road.

"He needs to drive and shoot," I pointed out, "why don't we try occupying him with one more thing?"

Nicole nodded in the darkness.

"I'll go" I said.

"It's too dangerous" She pointed out.

"I need you to interrogate him." I said, "With your semblance. Plus, my focus will work better"

"But do you have enough room to move around if that need arises?" She asked.

"I'll be fine" I replied, peering over the seat again.

"Be careful" She said.

"I will" I replied, slowly climbing over the seat.

So there you have it. Kind of a crappy cliffhanger, but I don't like making these chapters too long, as I don't particularly enjoy reading long ones myself.

The story will be picking up from here. I felt like this chapter was somewhat awkward to read, but maybe that's just because i haven't read anything to do with this story for a long time.

Anyways, I really don't have a lot to say today, plus I'm a little tired. So as usual, favorite, follow, review, tell your friends, tell your enemies, or don't if you don't want to, and I'll see you all in the next chapter.