Night of the 23rd of March 2016 - In a wrecked plane near the island's cliff
Okano, Mimura, Nakamura and Chiba managed to find a hideout in the fuselage of a wrecked plane.
"Wow that was close" Nakamura said.
"Yeah, for a split second I thought I would be stuck under those rocks" Okano said, then she asked: "What could possibly have caused the cave to collapse?"
"Who knows, could have been a bomb, a structural failure or just a trap by the hosts of this crap show. Hell, from all the shit we have been through today, I'm not surprised anymore" Mimura said.
"Yeah, especially that guy with multiple personality disorder" Nakamura reminisced.
*FLASHBACK*
Afternoon of 23rd of March 2016 - In a cave on a hill of the island
Chiba was on lookout with his trusted Blaser R93 Tactical sniper rifle, while the others took some rest. Everything looked like smooth sailing, until a chilling scream broke the peace and serenity of the island forest.
"What the hell!?" Chiba said at a low tone and kept looking in his scope to know more.
"Maybe is one of our classmates in trouble, we need to check on it" Mimura suggested.
"No, don't move a muscle, stay put inside the cave" Chiba said.
"What did you see, Chiba-kun?" Nakamura asked the sniper boy.
"Two girls are running from a guy, who looks like a psychopath" Chiba explained the situation.
Afternoon of 23rd of March 2016 - Island Forest
The two girls kept running as fast as they could, but their race finished at a dead end.
"End of the race, girls" the boy said.
"H-How did you manage to find us?" one of the girls said, shocked.
"Two beautiful chicks like you are easily distinguishable in the darkness of this forest" the boy said perversely, then he added: "But now I've had enough of playing hide and seek, tonight I could have killed a lot of people; instead you two made me lose a lot of time so I'll cut short to the point: who wants to die first?"
"You go Runa, you are the expendable sister" said one of the girls.
"What ?! Are you crazy?!" the other girl answered, shocked by her sister's decision.
"Well the draw was done so ..." the boy said, then took Runa by the arm and continued "... you will be the first to die"
"Yuna please, help me" said Runa in tears, trying to reason with her sister.
Her sister tried to move, but the fear freezed her on her marks.
"Yuna please, I don't want to..." Runa began saying but could not finish, as the boy stabbed her in the back and throat, killing her instantly.
The boy broke into an evil laugh and said: "And one is gone, now it's your turn" looking at Yuna with the look of a ravaged killer.
"N-No, please, I'll do whatever you want" Yuna tried to beg the boy not to kill her.
"Then die, my little cupcake" the boy said.
Yuna closed her eyes, hoping that her demise will be quick and painless, but it wasn't, the poor girl was killed in the exact same way as her sister. After the murderer did his job, he felt like he was about to black-out and sat on the floor, trying to regain composure. But as he opened his eyes, he didn't recognize the place nor what he was doing in the past hour.
"Uh, what? What the hell is this place?..." the boy said, like the things he did before never happened.
Then he looked at his hands, drenched in blood and began to realize what he has done.
"Oh god, what I've done? He came out again" the boy said to himself, then he added "I gotta get out of here" and ran away from the scene.
Dusk of 23rd of March 2016 - In a cave on a hill of the island
An hour passed since the events occured, Chiba, Nakumura, Mimura and Okano were around a campfire trying to warm themselves.
"Wow that was intense" Chiba said, still startled by what he saw through his scope.
"Yeah, why didn't you shoot him in the head with your gun?" Nakamura said.
"Because from what I saw, he could rip us apart with a toothpick" Chiba pointed out.
"Yeah but we could have at least try to..."Mimura began saying but he was cut off by an explosion.
"What the hell is going on?!" Okano said, fearing for her life.
Then the cave ceiling began to collapse.
"Okano! Careful!" Mimura said and saved the girl from being crushed by a pile of rubble.
"Thank you very much, Mimura-kun" Okano thanked the boy.
"Don't mention it, now let's get out here" he said.
"Quick! Over here!" Chiba screamed the two teens.
Fortunately, all of them managed to get out of the cave pretty much unscaved, apart from being covered in dirt and rocky dust; after the averted danger, the teens ran far away from their spot to avoid unwanted attention by the other players.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
Evening of the 23rd of March 2016 - In a wrecked plane near the island's cliff
"Thank god we didn't bump into that guy" Okano said.
"Yeah, if I see him I'll rip his head clean off the shoulders" Nakamura angrily said.
"Calm down Nakamura-san, you saw what he's capable of with a simple knife" Chiba reasoned with the blond girl.
"I can't stand it! I can see that poor girl face here in front of me, telling to avenge her" Nakamura said
"I know, but right now what we need is to survive and try not to be killed by some blood thirsty teenager" Chiba kept reasoning with her.
"You're right, okay" Nakamura finally calmed down.
Morning of the 24th of March 2016 - Island Forest, Haruka's group campfire
Meanwhile, deep into the forest, Haruka and his friends were gathered around the fire, awaiting for Jiu's explaination.
"It's time to spill the beans, Jiu-san" Yada said.
Jiu was reluctant, but Professor Ide came in the conversation and said "Jiu-san, I trust them, you can speak freely"
"Ok, on the other hand it is fair for what they have done tonight. Ask for what you want" Jiu said, finally convinced to talk.
"Ok, first of all, why one of Yanagisawa's guard is here on this island? Did you became a traitor?" Yada asked.
"No, I'm not a traitor and I'll never be one; I'm here by my own free will" Jiu explained.
"Who can be so crazy to come here and play on his own will?" Haruka asked.
"After what happened to your cousin, Yada-san, I couldn't stand the vicissitudes that those poor people were going through because of a sadistic scientist anymore" Jiu kept explaining.
The group understood that they were lucky in comparison.
"The poor subjects were: kids, teens like you, adults who had only a few months to live and everytime someone had a rejection crysis like Yada's cousin did, they just kill them and move on, without even trying to save them" Jiu continued to explain, although it was clear that he felt physical pain to tell.
"Wow, it must have been so hard for you watching those poor people die" Okajima said.
"You can't even imagine how much...anyway, I had to find a way to put down Yanagisawa for good, but since he injected himself with the tentacles, he's pretty invicible, that's why I needed to find professor Ide, he's the only one who can give me something to erase the tentacles from him" Jiu finished explaining.
"Wait a minute, you're saying that you..." Okajima, realizing what Jiu was planning to do, began saying but was cut off by Jiu himself who said "That's right, I want to kill Yanagisawa and whoever follows him and destroy the tentacles forever"
The teens laughed hard at that sentece, how could one guy destroy an entire organization.
"I understand your skepticism guys, but I have hatched a bomb-proof plan" Jiu said.
"Really? Let's hear it then" Karma said.
"I can't really explain it right now" Jiu said.
"Oh yeah, and why can't you?" Sugino asked the soldier.
"Because, the island is full of cameras and CCTV's" Professor Ide gave an answer to Sugino's question.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that" Sugino said.
"Wait, we're talking shit about them since we stood a foot on this island, wouldn't that be a nuisance to them? We are however worldwide on the dark web right?" Haruka asked the professor.
"They obviously censor and cut any scene that is uncomfortable for them; like this conversation" the professor explained.
"I see" Haruka said.
"You didn't finish explaining Jiu-san ,why are you here anyway?" Hinano asked the soldier.
"Once I discovered that Professor Ide was one of the contestant of the show, I infiltrated as a contestant too" Jiu kept explaining.
"If we saved him, I suppose he has great value" Yada said.
"Yep, he is..."Jiu began explaining but he was cut off by the professor who said:" I'm one of the most trusted researcher of Yanagisawa's elite crew and I contributed to the creation of the tentacles and this show" the professor explained.
"What" the teens gasped.
"Wow, then with you on our side we're all set to win this game" Karma said, tasting already the victory.
"Not really, I know all the island and how to make you survive, but..." the professor stopped on his tracks.
"But...?" Yada asked.
"But at the end of the day it's all in vain, this show is a farce" the professor admitted guiltily.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Hinano asked him.
"The money is just a pretext to get killed between you and the freedom ... you can forget it, in the end you will be taken to the research facility for experiments with the tentacles which is the long-life serum promised" the professor explained.
"This...This means that surviving in this game is worthless" Yada said, dejected.
"There's no hope" said the professor.
After that sentence the teens looked at each other, with some of them already abandoned to despair.
"No, fuck that" Haruka stood up and said.
"What do you mean, Haruka-kun?" Karma asked the boy.
"That I'm not going to be screwed by those sick bastards..." Haruka said bravely.
"... and that I'm not going to die until I've killed who I want to kill" Jiu joined in.
"In summary, I want to live and you?" Haruka asked the other teens in his group.
"I want to live, if possible" the professor said.
"And you will, big guy, because all of us are going to live" Okajima said.
"Yeah" the others said.
"But keep that in mind: I don't like any of you and frankly I don't trust you either" Haruka said jokingly, then he got serious again and added:" But we have to cover our backs to get to the final"
"Pff" Yada said, agreeing to him.
"Of course, soldier" Jiu said.
"So ... are we a team?" Hinano asked.
"You can swear it," Haruka said.
Morning of the 24th of March 2016 - Unknown Location
"You can swear it," the boy in the TV said, as the screen blacks out.
"You're still alive huh? You bastard" Tatsuno watched in anger as his fake boyfriend soldiered on.
Morning of the 24th of March 2016 - Island Forest
Kataoka and Isogai managed to find a secluded spot to settle down for the night and were making shifts to guard the area. Now was Isogai's turn and it was looking like smooth sailing. Kataoka, meanwhile tried to get some sleep but she was suffering drawbacks from the tranquilizer they gave him to abduct her. So, she stood up and kept the kept the bonfire alive.
"Your stomach still hurts, Megu-chan?" Isogai asked the girl.
"Yeah, pretty badly too..." Kataoka admitted.
"Oh that's bad, how can a tranquilizer make your stomach hurt that much?" Isogai asked himself, puzzled by the Kataoka's stomach ache.
"Don't bang your head about it, I'm sure that it will go away some time" Kataoka assured Isogai.
"What if it doesn't go away?" Isogai asked the girl.
"I'll find a way to cope with it, don't worry" Kataoka kept assuring the boy that she's gonna be ok, but the boy was not sure she was telling the truth.
"Ok, but if it gets worse, tell me and i'll go find some meds" Isogai said to the girl; even though he didn't trust her all the way down.
"Sure thing, Isogai-kun" Kataoka agreed to that.
Then, footsteps made them go into full alert mode, making them draw their guns ready to kill anyone who came in front of them. Two guys came out, all with their faces covered by paintball masks holding a Franchi Spas-12 and a tire iron. Isogai, at first glance, did not recognize them, but then recognized Terasaka's multicolored hair. Then, confident that they had recognized them, he said: "I know you, don't I?"
The guy holding the Spas-12, was petrified at that question and replied: "Who's asking?"
"It's me, Yuuma Isogai" Isogai said.
"Isogai-kun?" said the other guy with the tire iron, Isogai nodded to him.
"T! It's them, we can take off our masks" the guy with the tire iron said.
"Ok...ok" T agreed and took off his mask, so did the other guy, revealing that they were Terasaka and Yoshida respectively.
"Hey guys, long time no see huh?" Terasaka said.
"Wow guys, another minute like this and I would have riddled you with bullets, haha" Isogai said.
"Thank god you didn't" Yoshida said.
"Guys, come with us to our hiding place; there we have food, water and an indoor seat; the others in our class are also there" Terasaka said to the two teens.
"Ok, let me just pick our stuff and we'll follow you" Isogai said, but as he turned around, Kataoka was on her knees, doubled over in pain.
Isogai and the others rushed to his aid.
"Kataoka-chan, are you all right?!" Terasaka asked
"No, she's not well, she's been having pain in her stomach since we woke up on this island," Isogai said.
"Oh man, we have to hurry; Isogai-kun, I'll pick up your stuff, take Kataoka-chan to our hideout" Yoshida said. Isogai nodded in approval; he took Kataoka in his arms and the four left for the hideout.
24th of March 2016 - Haruka's camp
Haruka was sitting on a log, deep in thought. He was thinking about her, again.
"You really tought I loved you?!..." the words echoed in his head.
"I'll make you pay for everything you've done, bitch..." he said in his head, then his thought were soon broken by Hinano who approached him.
"Hey Haruka-kun, do you want to spend all day making the beautiful figurine? If you don't hurry, you risk being left behind" Hinano asked the boy.
"No, I...uhm...I'm coming" Haruka said.
"Hey, is something wrong?" Hinano asked the sniper boy.
"Listen, let's make something clear; if you think that after what we have been through we are friends, you are very wrong; I don't like you okay? I just need you to survive and you will do the same with me ok? We are business partners, clear?" Haruka pointed out to the girl.
"Business partners?" Hinano asked, puzzled.
"Exactly, allies and nothing more, do you understand?" Haruka asked the girl.
"Well, then it's nice to have you as a business partner" Hinano said.
Haruka at that sentence, was out of his words, she was always charming.
"Haruka-kun, Hinano-chan, move if you don't want to get lost" Yada said to the pair.
The two nodded and rejoined the group.
24th of March 2016 - Island Forest
After a long walk the group was making good progress to the destination that Professor Ide mentioned the night before.
"Guys, let's take a break, we're almost near the place" professor Ide said.
"Excuse me professor, but exactly where are we going again?" Okajima asked him.
"There is a farmhouse west of here, equipped with weapons, medicines and food for over 40 people; whoever finds it has an edge in the game" the professor explained the boy.
"And who tells us that someone hasn't found it already?" Okajima asked nervously.
"Nah, I doubt it has already been found, only me and a few other producers of the show know the exact location of the farmhouse" the professor said confidently.
24th of March 2016 - Secret Location
"A farmhouse? For real? Who put that in the show?" Tatsuno was shocked by the professor's words.
"Sorry, the miss is unhappy of something?" the show host Heiji Homura asked her.
"Homura-kun, could you please explain me the farmhouse story?" she nervously asked the host.
"It was added to spice up the show; let's say it breaks the monotony of the murders." Homura explained to Tatsuno.
"But that's unfair!" she protested.
"Unfair?! Excuse me miss, do you want to be the devil's lawyer by chance?" Homura replied annoyed.
"W-Well I..uh..."Tatsuno tried to protest again but she was cut off by Homura.
"Yanagisawa himself had the idea, do you want to oppose your wishes, miss?" Homura asked her.
Tatsuno, seeing that going against her boss wishes can cost her the life, didn't even answer and went back to check on the action.
24th of March 2016 - Island Forest
"Ide-sensei, can I ask you something?" Hinano asked the professor.
"Sure thing, Hinano-chan" the professor said.
"You said that you were one of the most distinguished scientists of the Yanagisawa crew, so why are you here?"Hinano asked the professor, all the group turned around to listen the answer.
"I ... I realized too late that the ultimate prize of this game was a farce, but Yanagisawa decided to keep the secret anyway. But I was against it; so they threatened me. They told me that if I didn't keep the game, they would... "the professor explained, but at a certain point he froze and the image of him with his girlfriend appeared in front of him. Once she disappeared, he continued to explain: "... kill my girlfriend; I was cornered and I've ended on this island, sure that they would think that I would die"
"Oh god, Ide-sensei, I'm so sorry I asked you this" Hinano said.
"Tsk... idiot" Haruka said.
"What?" the professor asked him, puzzled by those words.
"Why sacrifice yourself for a girl!? You just thrown away your life, Ide-sensei" Haruka said, clearly nervous about the whole sob-story the professor taught.
The others looked him with a shocked face.
"Hey, what do you mean with that?!" Yada asked to him, angered by the words.
"That womens fuck with your brain... they play with your feelings than they throw you like trash" Haruka explained, blinded by the thought of Tatsuno's words.
The group remained silent at those words.
"I know it better than any of you, so is better for you to start minding your own business otherwise you'll not last long" Haruka said and made some space between him and them.
"Who the hell think he is?" Yada was angry after those words, then she turned to professor Ide and said: "Hey Ide-sensei, do not mind that idiot's words"
"To say things like that, he must have been through hell" Hinano speculated.
"It doesn't matter, I'll talk to him and make him learn some camaraderie" Jiu said and left.
...
"Haruka-kun!" Jiu yelled.
He stopped and said: "What?!"
"I'll be straight with you: you're beginning to be too much of an asshole with your mates!" Jiu scolded him.
Now in blind rage, Haruka said: "Mates?! I don't have them, not anymore"
"She was the reason you ended up on this island right?" Jiu found out.
Haruka froze, as he got the focal point.
"She did this" he said, with tears forming in his eyes.
"Listen, I have been stabbed behind my back many more times than you, I can understand your fury now but ... releasing it on the others, can make you lose your "allies", as you called them. And the one who will not last long will be you; got that, comrade?" Jiu tried to reason with him.
Haruka sighed and said: "Loud and clear"
"Excellent, now lets head back to the others and keep on going" he said.
Haruka nodded and followed him back to the others.
24th of March 2016 - Terasaka's gang hideout
Itona was on lookout on the north balcony, Hayami was on the roof, scoping the perimeter with her sniper rifle and the other were catching up some rest after the morning looting run. Then, Hayami noticed Terasaka and Yoshida, accompanied by Isogai who was holding a passed out Kataoka on his shoulders.
"Guys open the door, it's them! And it looks like they found Isogai and Kataoka" Hayami warned the guys inside the building to go open the door.
"Ok, I'm on it" Muramatsu said and rushed to to the sturdy metal sheet that served as a door to open it.
The group entered the hideout and he quickly reclosed the door. Everyone turned their attention to Isogai who entered with Kataoka in his arms.
"Isogai-kun, what happened? Why did Megu-chan faint and are you carrying her?" Hara asked.
"She passed out; her stomach is causing her extreme pain because of the tranquilizer they gave her" Isogai explained the situation to the group.
"Oh god, is she ok now?" Hazama asked him
"I don't think so, she was agonizing from the pain like five minutes ago" Isogai said.
"Damn, we need to find some meds stat!" Itona said, worried about her companion's health situation.
"I'll go for a meds run right now" Isogai said, preparing to get out again to search some med for his friend.
"You'll need help, I'm coming with you" Itona offered himself to help Isogai.
"Thank you Itona-kun, I accept your help. Ok, I'm ready" Isogai said.
"Me too" Itona said, cocking his gun.
"Ok guys, be careful out there" Hara recommended the two.
"Don't worry about us" Isogai said and left the hideout in search of meds with Itona.
*Timeskip*
Kataoka regain conciousness and was surrounded by familiar faces.
"Kataoka-san, you're finally awake" Hara said to the stricken girl.
"Yeah, you've been worrying us sick" Hayami said.
"What happened?" Kataoka asked her friends.
"You collapsed because of your stomach problem and Isogai carried you to our hideout" Terasaka explained the situation to her.
"Oh yeah, the stomach problem" Kataoka said in a very suspicious way.
"What's going on, Kataoka-chan? Why you have this stomach problems all of a sudden?" Hayami frankly asked to her.
"Exactly, how a tranquilizer can cause you to have a very serious stomach problem?" Yoshida joined in.
"Another time guys, now I want only to..." Kataoka was suddenly cut off by Muramatsu who screamed: "Everyone, someone is attacking us!" with gunshots echoing in the building.
"We have to defend the perimeter! Everyone at their battle places" Terasaka ordered his mates.
"Yeah" everyone said and ran into a fixed position.
"Guys, I can help" Kataoka said.
"No Kataoka-chan, you are not fit to handle a gun fight, just stay put and will take care of them" Hayami said and ran on the roof to snipe the attackers
24th of March 2016 - Outside Terasaka's gang hideout
"Boss, the resistance is very high; what do we do?" asked a boy dressed in a suit with a jaguar drawn on it.
"The same thing we do for all our prey: we make them tire themself up then we ""bite"" them in the skull" the boss explained his soldier.
"As jaguars do" another boy dressed in a jaguar drawed suit said.
"I like it!" the teen said and began shooting with his H&K A2 Assault Rifle against the group.
"Damn it, I have to find a better spot to snipe them" Hayami said as she took cover; then she found a spot in the building from which a tree branch hanging on it that she could descend without being spotted and finally kill the invaders.
"Ok it's my best shot, let's go" she said and ran in the direction of the tree. She climbed down the tree and sat on one of the lower branches to begin sniping the attackers out; but before he could do that a dart was shot in her arm, making her dizzy. It was one of the jaguars who successfully sneaked behind the building and was awaiting them to make them fall into a trap; and Hayami fell for it completely.
"Hey there little pig, the big bad wolf came to play" the boy said as the stricken girl fainted on the ground.
Meanwhile, down on the balcony, Terasaka and Yoshida were repelling the frontal attack.
"How are you doing, Yoshida?" Terasaka said.
"Busy, these guys are pretty tough, but I can take them" Yoshida said.
"Ok let's split up then, I'll go downstairs to help Hara and Muramatsu and I'll check on Kataoka" Terasaka said.
"Go, I'll catch up with you later" Yoshida said.
Terasaka nodded and ran downstairs.
24th of March 2016 - Island Forest
Haruka's group heard the gunshots coming from the east.
"What the hell is going on?!" Okajima asked.
"I don't know but it looks kinda bad" Yada imagined a case scenario.
"I'll go up this hill to check" Haruka said.
"Ok but be careful Haruka-kun" Hinano said.
"Don't worry, I'll be back in one piece" Haruka said and began climbing a steep hill.
As he arrived at the top, he took out his sniper rifle and began scoping the area from which the gunshots were coming from; he saw some very armed teenagers assaulting a group who set up a camp in an abandoned building.
"Haruka-kun what can you see?" Jiu asked the teenager.
"I see some guys assaulting a group of teens in an abandoned building" Haruka explained the situation; then he saw a familiar face from the E-Class coming out cover from an upstairs balcony.
"Wait guys! I see Yoshida inside the building" Haruka warned his group.
"Yoshida?! That could mean that more of our class are there too?" Okuda asked.
"That's look like it" Karma confirmed his girlfriend suspicions.
"We gotta help them" Yada said as she took her gun out, ready to kill everyone who stopped her.
"Calm down Yada-san, we have to figure out an attack plan that can send those attackers to hell" Kanzaki suggested.
"You're right, so what's the plan?" Sugino said.
"Haruka-kun, how much guys you see?" Jiu asked the sniper teen.
"There are 10 guys attacking the main building plus backup ready to pounce in; I count 15 people in total. I'm not done yet; there are 5 spotters guarding the main escape ways. If we want to save them, we will have to make a carnage" Haruka explained the situation at his group.
"I have an idea: we could split up in groups of two and kill everyone" Okajima hatched a plan.
"Yeah nice plan, but you forgot a tiny little detail: there are 15 people ready to make us look like swiss cheese!" Sugino scolded his classmate.
"Guys calm down, I have a better plan in my mind" Kanzaki said to the group.
"We're listening" Okajima said.
"So, we have a sniper in our group right? We can use him as a trump card. So here's what: Haruka, with his sniper rifle will stay here and snipe the five guards guarding the exits and eventually cover us from up there with the professor serving as a lookout. Meanwhile, we will try to melee as many soldiers as possible so that they cannot warn their comrades. Then, when the path is more clear, we fish out our guns and kill whoever stands in our way. Okuda and Hinano, you will stay here and cover the professor and the sniper-boy" Kanzaki explained her plan.
"That sounds like a plan to me, I'm in" Karma said, joining the rescue team.
"I'm in too" Sugino joined too.
"You can count on me" Jiu agreed to help them too.
"Me too" the girls said together.
"Ok then, let's go save our friends" Okajima encouraged them.
"I'll cover you from up here, if anything goes wrong, come back here and I'll take care of any pursuers" Haruka said to them.
The teens just nodded and started their plan.
24th of March 2016 - Terasaka's gang hideout
"Damn it, there are too many! We need something powerful to take them out" Muramatsu said.
"Yeah but what? We don't have anything that can kill them" Terasaka said to his friend.
"Guys, I have some bombs. Here, take them" Kataoka said and gave some IED bombs to them.
"IED's?! How the hell do you have this kind of firepower?" Terasaka asked.
"Isogai took them from a soldier he killed" Kataoka explained to him.
"Really? Wow" Terasaka was impressed by his classmate bloodlust.
The jaguars began getting closer to the building still shooting 5.56 mm bullets against them.
"Take this, you murdering bastards" Terasaka said and tossed some IED's towards them.
"What the..." the bad guys didn't even got the time to finish that sentence, the IED's created an enormous fireball that engulfed the jaguars and burnt them to a crisp.
"GOAL!" Terasaka cheered.
"Ha! Suck on that, you bastards" Muramatsu cheered too.
While the soldiers began melting under the fire, their boss was there, smirking like he had everything already planned; he looked like he knew that his soldiers would die and did nothing to try to save them.
"How the hell does he stay so cold in front of such a scene" thought Yoshida, who saw the whole scene from the balcony.
"Jaguars! Hold your fire" he said and all the remaining soldiers stopped firing.
"Wha.. why they stopped shooting?" Everyone in the building thought.
"Come out peacefully and your little friend here will not be killed as brutally as my soldiers" the boss said as one of his soldiers was holding Hayami by the collar of his shirt.
"Oh crap, Hayami! They got her!" the group said.
"Last warning, come out and she'll not be harmed" the boss warned them again, putting his gun to Hayami's face.
"Ok!Ok! We're getting out" Terasaka finally gave up; he took Kataoka on his shoulders and began walking outside.
"Hey! Toss your guns away from you" one of the soldiers said. They obeyed and tossed the guns far from them; the soldiers pointed their guns at their backs ready to put a bullet in them if they tried to run away or fight back. The Terasaka's gang was defeated
"On your knees" the boss said; they obeyed without flinching.
As the group was know on thier knees, accepting defeat, the Jaguars boss left a blood-chilling laugh and said: "You really thought that you could defeat us, a bunch of junior high kids with some firecracker weapons, pathetic"
"Oh really? I think your friends over there who smell like barbecue disagree" Yoshida said and pointed to them.
"Shut up" one of the soldier said and hit Yoshida in the head with the back of his AR-15, making him fall down to the ground.
"I suggest you to play by our rules if you wanna live...oh wait... I was lying...time to die, little pigs" the boss said and gestured his soldiers to load their guns, ready to execute the group.
"NOW!" a voice echoed from the forest.
"BANG" the sound of a gunshot blasted through the air, but it was not from the Jaguars' guns. The boss looked around, then he noticed a red stain becoming wider and wider in one of his soldiers' chest.
"B-Boss...h-help me" the soldier plead him for help but he was shot again in the head. He turned around only to see more of his soldiers on the ground, lying dead.
"Who dares challenging the Jaguars!?" the angered boss said, before he was shot in both his legs and chest.
"Us! Tough guy" Karma said as he, Sugino, Jiu, Yada, Fuwa and Kanzaki came out their hiding spot with the guns pointed to the remaining soldiers.
"Don't come any closer or the girl is dead" the soldier holding Hayami said.
"Leave the girl and get away from her; otherwise you'll meet the devil in a few seconds" Fuwa said to him.
"You really think I care if you shoot me? If you do it, I'll do the same to your little friend here. I am not afraid of death; when she comes for me, I shall embrace her. I hope that redhead here has the same inner peace" the soldier said.
"Fine, suit yourself" Kanzaki said and made a signal to the forest.
"What are you..." the soldier was cut off by a sniper rifle shot.
A bullet pierced through the soldier's skull, cracking it open. His body tumbled on the ground taking Hayami down with him; the others proceeded gunning down the remaining soldiers and freeing their classmates. Now the boss was alone, wounded and with his dead soldiers surrounding him.
"How did you manage to evade security and kill all my allies?" the boss asked the group.
"It was easy, is not the first time we sneak behind heavily armed people" Sugino said.
*Flashback from half an hour ago*
24th of March 2016 - The forest surrounding Terasaka's gang hideout
The group split in little ones and began their plan. The first ones were the spotters at the exits; Karma and Sugino the one on the north, where the deployment of forces was highest; Yada and Jiu to the east, with less forces deployment; Fuwa the two ones to the west and Okajima the ones on the south side.
- North side
Sugino and Karma took cover behind a wrecked car and studied thier surroundings.
"We can take them Karma-kun, we'll fight back to back so we will cover each other" Sugino suggested a direct approach.
"I was thinking of something more safe and with for harmless us, you see those two grenades over there? We can steal them and blow them apart; then we crash in and erase them; You still have some explosives baseball in case we need to erase some more of them right?" Karma suggested a more subtle but still harmful approach.
"Yeah, I still have them... I like your plan, Karma-kun, let's do this" Sugino agreed to Karma's plan.
"Wait, some of them are moving, let's see where they're going" Karma stopped Sugino.
"I'm going to smoke a cigarette" one of the soldiers said.
"I'm in" another one joined his comrade.
"Yeah but far from here, I hate the smell of cigarettes on me" one soldier ordered the two.
"Fine, naggy" he said and left with his comrade.
"Karma-kun, can I borrow your knife? I'll take care of those two before we blow them up" Sugino said.
"Sure but remember, if I see a dent on my knife, I'll use your teeth to straight it up, ok?" Karma recommended his classmate, as he handed over the knife.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it" Sugino took the knife and followed the two.
Karma sneaked past some guards to pick up some grenades, meanwhile Sugino sneaked perfectly behind the two smokers, who were taking a nap on some rocks instead of smoking.
"Perfect" he thought.
The blade pearced through the heart of the two and made them fall to the ground, drowning in their own blood.
"Wake up, you're dead" Sugino said at a low tone and left them to soak in their own blood.
He then came back into the hiding spot.
"Here, take your knife back" Sugino handed the knife back to Karma.
"Thanks, you're ready to make a mess?" he asked Sugino.
"I was born ready" Sugino confirmed.
"Good, since you are good with long balls, you will catch those in the back; I'll take care of the others" Karma explained his plan to Sugino.
"Got it" Sugino understood.
"Ok, 3...2...1... initiate" Karma gave the signal to act.
Sugino pulled the grenade pin and threw it as far as he could; luckily the grenade hit the mountain wall and rolled right in front of the group of soldiers.
"Oh crap, grena..." a soldier tried to warn his comrades but the grenade prevented him, killing him and his comrades in the process.
"What the hell is this?" the other group exclaimed.
"Your worst nightmare!" Karma said and threw his grenade.
"Get co..." as it happened to other group they were killed in the same way, before they could say something.
"Mission accomplished" Sugino said and high fived Karma.
"Yeah, now let's move toward the building" Karma said.
"Let's go" Sugino said and the two began running towards the building.
- East side
Jiu and Yada stationed on a rise, watching the group from above and figuring out how to kill them without alerting the others.
"I think I have an idea..."Jiu's mind began processing a plan.
"I'm listening" Yada said.
"I can craft a decoy device that can lure them into a bust. There we erase them with our guns" Jiu explained his plan to Yada.
"Sorry Jiu-san, I think they're quite trained in recognizing a decoy" Yada depicted his plan.
"Ah damn, you're right; then what can we do?" Jiu asked.
"Hmm...wait a minute, is that...I got it" Yada had a plan.
"What is it?" Jiu asked the girl.
"You see that gas can over there? Shoot at it. If my deduction is correct, they should all gather around it" Yada said, passing him the silencer for his pistol.
He shot at the gas can; one minute later a fireball erupted from the little canister. The soldiers were alerted by the explosion and went to check on it. As the soldiers were now one big group, Yada made a signal to Haruka for support. He shot two rounds in each of the soldiers; there were now just two remaining, Yada an Jiu both came out of their covers and killed the last two soldiers.
"How did you know that the soldiers would come and check on the explosion?" Jiu asked the girl.
"Simple, my PE teacher was a ex JAF, well trained for this kind of decoy. So the gas can was the perfect one to lure them into a trap" Yada explained.
"Wait, an ex-JAF, a PE teacher? What kind of school is that?" Jiu asked.
"The school doesn't matter, the classroom does. My classroom...the E" Yada proudly said.
Jiu looked at the girl like he was looking to a well-trained assassin, who was reaping the rewards of his training, tasting the blood of his victims.
"Now c'mon Jiu-san, we have to go" Yada said.
"Yeah, let's go" Jiu followed the teenager, still thinking about the words she just said.
- West side
The west side was the last place guarded, since the south side was surrounded by a big unclimbable mountain, by two soldiers. Fuwa was hid on a tree branch, hatching a plan. But suddenly the tree branch she was on started cracking under her weight (the tree was very damaged and almost dead).
"Shit!" Fuwa whispered as the branch broke from the tree and made her fall to the ground.
"What the hell is that noise?" the soldier asked to his comrade.
"It sounded like a tree branch falling down, maybe we have more company" the soldier said, sensing danger.
"Let's go check it out" the two comrades began walking in the direction of the noise.
"Damn, I have to use my last two bullets; it's the only choice" Fuwa thought, hiding behind the dead tree.
As the two soldiers arrived at the dead tree, Fuwa came out of hiding and fired the two bullet rounds she had left. One of them hit the head of the first soldier, the other was deflected.
"Missed" the soldier said.
"Wrong!" Fuwa said.
The dead soldier was carrying three bounding mines in a bag behind him, Fuwa managed to hit one of the mines with the second bullet, making them explode simultaneously, reducing the dead body and the still alive soldier to bits.
"Oh, Lazarus, how did your debts get paid? With blood on my name..." Fuwa said a catchphrase from a manga she was writing.
As she completed her task, she met the others, proceeding with the rest of the plan.
- South side
Okajima had the south side, guarded by three big soldiers, who looked more like wardrobes than humans.
"Damn, how the hell I can put these three beasts to sleep?"he thought, then a spark lit up in his head "I'll signal Haruka so he can snipe them"
He took a spare flare from his backpack and lit it up. But he was Okajima and thanks to his clumsiness he fell from the hill he was hiding right in front of the three soldiers.
"Ho-ho, what do we have here?" one of the soldier said, looking at Okajima.
"Looks like a peeping tom, K" the second soldier said.
"I see, what should we do with him?" K asked the other two.
"I got an idea, let's cut him" the third one said, taking out his big combat knife from the pocket.
"Ooooh yeah, nothing beats the smell of fresh meat, do it" K gave the all clear to butcher Okajima.
"Damn, I'm done, please god, may my death be quick and painless" Okajima plead.
But before the soldier could even get close to him, three rifle shots were fired and the three soldier tumbled to the ground.
"Who the..."Okajima tried to find the guys who saved him, but no one was around.
"Well they're dead and I'm alive, I tell them I did this all by myself" Okajima began preparing a heroic fake story, smirking.
Meanwhile, from a broken airplane fuselage, Nakamura, Chiba and Okano were celebrating, as they were the one who saved Okajima from getting him to look like he fell out with the butcher.
"Well done guys, we saved that clumsy perv" Okano was delighted.
"Yeah, if it wasn't for us, he'll be chopped up like a steak" Nakamura said.
"Uuuh, I don't wanna even think about him in that state" Mimura was disgusted by the thought.
Chiba simply smiled, as for him, sniping things was normal, along her partner Hayami.
"Yeah Hayami, I hope you're fine" Chiba said in his head.
"Hey Chiba-kun, quit daydreaming, follow Okajima, maybe he can lead us to the others
"I'm on it" Chiba said and followed Okajima with the scope.
One by one, they took down every single soldier that was harming their friends, with Haruka helping them from the hill he was sniping, until they reached the building and finalize the plan by gunning down all the soldiers and capture the Jaguars' boss.
*End of flashback*
24th of March 2016 - Terasaka's gang hideout
The E-Class has just shown their true face, the one that was supposed to kill Korosensei, but failed one week ago thanks to the perpretators of this show of the death.
"Enough chit-chat; last chance tough guy, what's it gonna be?" Karma said to the Jaguars boss.
"Screw you! I'll never kneel to you!" the boss said.
"Fine, have it your way" Karma said and stabbed him in the throat, making him choke on his own blood.
It was finally over, the attackers were all dead. Haruka, from up his hill, watched as the group began to feel a well-known sensation for him, the remorse of the aftermath of a blood-killing spree.
"I have to calm them down" he said and called the lookouts, descended the hill and all together walked towards the building.
"What the hell did we just do?" Fuwa was the first to fall in the trap.
"You saved your classmates...and friends" Haruka said, as he, along with Okuda, Hinano and the professor re-joined the rest of the group.
"B-but we ki-killed a lot of teens, just like us!" Sugino was the next one to fall in the remorse trap.
"Come on, it's not that bad; we killed a bunch of goons who threatened our friends so what?" Karma was not affected by it, since he always had a violent nature.
"It's easy to talk for you since you are a sadistic psycho" Okajima acccused him.
"What did you say!?" Karma had his fist up in the air, ready to make Okajima swallow his teeth.
"Karma-kun stop it! Please" Okuda tried to reason with his boyfriend.
"Yeah soldier! We need to stay together and try not to kill each other" Jiu came in to try and calm down the situation.
"EVERYONE! CALM DOWN! Fuwa-chan, Sugino-kun and all the others; in this game we have only two options: you rather kill or get killed. If they found you weak, you'll be doomed and all the works you have put up since will be trashed; I know it's difficult, but you have to think that you did this for your own safety" Haruka tried to calm the group down. And it worked, Karma settled and the others began to calm themselves down.
"Nice job, Haruka-kun" Jiu thanked the sniper, giving him a high five.
"Hey not to be pushy or nothing but how about you get us out of this FUCKING ROPES!" Terasaka blared.
The teens rushed to free their friends from the ropes that kept them tied up.
"It's about time you showed up!" Terasaka started nagging.
"Calm down, "Pseudo-Takaoka" , we founded you just because we heard shooting and we had a sniper in our team" Okajima said.
"Yeah, otherwise you'd be eating dirt with the others" Karma provoked.
"Shut up Karma" Terasaka said.
As soon as they released them, the group began checking on Hayami and Kataoka, who again fainted for the pain.
"Hayami-san!Hayami-san! Wake up!" Okuda and Hinano tried to woke her up.
As she opened her eyes, she found two familiar faces staring at her and said: Okuda-san!?Hinano-chan!? What are you doing here?" hugging them in the process.
"We were kidnapped too as well the others" Okuda explained.
As Hayami stood up from the ground she recognized Okajima, Karma, Sugino and Fuwa and"...who is that boy holiding sniper rifle?" she asked, not recognizing the sniper.
"Oh, he's Haruka Kobayashi, he's from the C-Class from our school" Hinano introduced him.
"I knew I've already saw him" Yoshida crashed in the conversation.
"Really? How?" Okuda asked him.
"He used to hang around the mountain after school, one day I found him having a swim in the pool Korosensei made for us, and then I noticed, poking out of the inside pocket of the jacket, a real revolver, like the ones we used in Okinawa" Yoshida said.
"Oh, you mean the gun he's carrying right now..." Hinano recognized Haruka's gun from the fight with the giant spider.
"...we know he has it" Okuda also knew the gun existence.
"Oh..."Yoshida was stunned by those words.
As all the guys were freed, they divided in two main teams: the cleanup crew which was made by: Terasaka, Karma, Haruka, Yoshida, Muramatsu and Hara with the task of disposing of the dead bodies lying around the perimeter ; then, there was the aid crew which was made up of the rest of the group with the task of medically assisting the wounded friends.
"Hey, you need some help with those bodies" a familiar voice asked the cleanup crew. As they turned around, Nakamura, Chiba, Okano and Mimura were standing in front with the iconic E-Class camo suits.
"Chiba-kun, you're alive" Hayami rushed to his sniper colleague and hugged him.
"Nakamura-san, it's nice to see you again" Hara and Hinano greeted the blondie.
"Mimura-kun, you finally showed up" Yoshida and Muramatsu high fived the boy.
"Guys, we need some help here, stat" Yada asked for help, Kataoka was still unconscious.
Haruka and Nakamura rushed to aid the stricken girl. Haruka checked the pulse, it was very weak.
"We need to get her inside now, we need some more hands here" Haruka called for more help.
"Who are you, handsome sniper-boy?" Nakamura asked.
"Now it's not the time for presentations, let's get your friend back inside that building"
Mimura and Okano rushed to carry the poor girl back inside the building. Then the rest of the group kept cleaning up the dead bodies.
*Timeskip*
Evening of the 24th of March 2016 - Terasaka's gang hideout
Isogai and Itona came back from the meds run, they managed to loot some painkillers, a case of antibiotics and two medikits, along with a emergency surgical kit, usually found in ambulances. As they entered the large square in front of the building, the place was completely sprayed with bullet holes and burn marks from bombs and molotovs.
"What the heck happened here?!" Isogai gasped.
"Nothing good for sure" said Itona, charging his Gauss rifle in the process.
"Let's get in, maybe our friends are still in there" Isogai suggested.
"Yeah, but keep your eyes peeled, we might have some unwanted company inside" Itona warned him.
Isogai just nodded, all he wanted now is to give the meds to Kataoka. As they entered the building, their friends were scattered around, most of them were asleep, exhausted for the battle of this afternoon and the aftermath. Haruka, Rio and Chiba were the only one still standing.
"Hey, who are you?! Answer me!" Itona angrily said, pointing his rifle at Haruka.
"Relax buddy, I'm the one, along with your classmates, who saved your friends from having a hole in the back of the neck" Haruka briefly explained.
"He's right Itona-kun, if it wasn't for this five, we will be lying on the ground with a bullet in the back of the head" Terasaka said.
"Alright, thank you guys and..." Itona forgot to ask for his name.
"Haruka...Haruka Kobayashi" Haruka introduced himself.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Itona" Itona did the same.
"Hey, I'm Yuuma Isogai" Isogai followed soon after.
"Are you done with the introductions? Well, then bring those medicines here please," Rio said.
Isogai gave the meds bag to her; Rio gave some antibiotics to Kataoka.
"And now we wait" Rio said, looking at the poor girl.
*Timeskip*
Night of the 24th of March 2016 - Island Forest
The misterious girl that gave the gun to Hinano was now threatening a girl with her 9.21 Handgun.
"He-hey, you really want to shoot me?" the girl asked.
"I could, if you don't give me a damn answer" the gunner said.
"But I gave it to you, I haven't seen anyone wearing a silver pendant" the poor girl was on the verge of tears.
"Okay, I get it; now get out of here and try not to get killed" the gunner said, lowering his gun.
"You don't have to say it again" the girl said and ran as fast as she could.
The other girl was now remembering a conversation she had had with a boy
"Tell me that you are there, and that you will always be there" she said to him.
"Hey, until the last moon, we'll always be together; I love you Sumire" he replied.
Back to the present, she said: "I love you too, Yuuki"
TO BE CONTINUED...
THE JOURNEY OF OUR FRIENDS KEEPS GETTING DARKER AS THEY PROCEED IN THE ISLAND OF DEATH. THEY HAD THE FIRST TASTE OF A REAL BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL; BUT IT'S ONLY THE START.
TATSUNO IS IN YANAGISAWA'S CREW? AND WHAT IS HER ROLE IN THE SHOW PRODUCTION?
WHO IS THIS GIRL NAMED SUMIRE? WHAT'S HER STORY?
WHO IS THAT BOY WHO FIRST COLDLY KILLED TWO GIRLS AND THEN LOOKED LIKE A HELPFUL KITTEN?
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WELL THE ONLY THING I COULD SAY IS...STAY TUNED, BECAUSE THE END OF THE DAY IS ALL HERE, WHERE THE WHITE ROSES ARE WHEN IT'S GETTING DARK!
A.N.1 Hey everyone, sorry for this period of hiatus, but a very big load of things turned up (mostly coming from work and university) and I couldn't work on the chapter. But it's finally complete, tell me your thoughts on it. Also, if you have some suggestions on how the story should progress, feel free to send me a message on my private messaging.
A.N.2 The next chapters will introduce us to the stories of some characters in more detail.
A.N.3 Some phrases of the characters are actually movie and songs quotes. Did you spot them? Tell me in the comments.
STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTERS.