This is my Second K-ON fanfiction. This story takes place during the girls senior year.

The Cursed Guitar! Ritsu's Arc.

Chapter 19: Ritsu's Arc and Nightmare!

*A/N: This is Ritsu's Arc. Takes place after the events from last chapter.

It was two months later. Mio was recovering and back to herself. Brane had been defeated and life was good. Azusa had been hanging out with Budo more and Yui liked to tease her about him, seeing her get all red. Ritsu was home and her brother was also home. Ritsu was having trouble sleeping for the past couple of days. She would always wake up sweating...but she could never understand why...maybe she was having dreams that dealt with Brane? Nah...he was gone and defeated. Perhaps Ritsu was getting ill? Nah Ritsu was fine and didn't let the bad sleep ruin her day. She took a sigh and took her brother to lunch on this nice sunny Saturday afternoon. As they continued to walk, Ritsu thought something was watching her. She turned around to see no one. She also heard voices in her head.

"Sis? You ok?" Satoshi asked and placed a hand on her shoulder. Ritsu shook a bit and looked at her brother.

"I'm fine...I'm fine." She replied and continued to walk with Satoshi to Max Burger. After eating Ritsu went to visit Mio for a while. "Hey Mio, how are you?"

"I'm good Ritsu." Mio replied with a smile. She let her best friend inside her room. Mio was working on some homework as it was a Saturday. Mio sat back at her desktop and got back to work. Ritsu sat on Mio's bed. "So...still having trouble sleeping?"

"Yeah. But I'm not gonna let it ruin my day." Ritsu replied.

"That's good. Hey have you heard from Mugi?"

"No not at all. I guess she's still with her family in Finland."

"Wasn't she suppose to be back yesterday?"

"I think so. She must be running late then."

"I heard Yui was with Azusa and Budo. Apparently Yui is trying to get Azusa to ask Budo out...but she refuses." Mio said, looking at Ritsu behind her.

"Ah. Well I wonder how long that'll take, especially if it's Yui giving the orders." Ritsu chuckled. She checks her phone and got a mysterious text from an unknown number. She read it and it said 'You been sleeping good?' Ritsu got a little freaked out by this and decided to delete the message and not tell anyone. She then got a text from Yui.

'Hey Ri-chan! I was wondering if you and Mio would like to help me try getting Azusa a date with Budo?' Ritsu read it and it told Mio. Ritsu responded with a yes. Yui texted back saying: Can you come meet me at the school? Ritsu replied with a yes again and went out with Mio to the school. Once they got their, they saw Yui at the entrance. She ran to them and hugged them.

"Hi! Thank you for helping me. Right now Azusa is at home. Since Azusa didn't want to ask Budo out, I figured we can get Budo to ask Azusa out instead!" Yui chimed.

"Okay. Okay. Well where is Budo?" Ritsu asked Yui.

"He's in the school. I told him to wait for you both. So let's go in." Yui led the two to Budo inside the light music club room. They found him sitting down at the desk. Back with Azusa. She was sitting in the living room of her home doing her homework for the weekend. She took a sigh seeing a text she had gotten from Yui. Deep down inside she was scared to ask Budo out because what if he rejected her? Azusa took another sigh and continued working on her homework. She wondered what Yui was doing right now. Maybe she was sleeping or ACTUALLY doing her homework.

"Like Yui-senpai would do her homework." Azusa shook her head at that thought and finishes her homework that was due Monday. Mugi was returning home and had some bad news to tell her friends. She found a dark figure in Finland who was spying on Mugi's family. She managed to kill it and didn't tell her family about it. Hours pass by and night came around. Budo was gonna ask Azusa out the next day, thanks to Yui, Mio and Ritsu. Ritsu, again, couldn't sleep last night. She was having a nightmare that involved her being stranded on a island with a large creature following her.

*In The Dream*

Ritsu was walking in a forest alone, dirty and afraid. It was night time and she kept hearing something following her, snarling. Ritsu created a shelter as a storm was brewing. She couldn't make a fire and was cold. "I got to get out of here." Ritsu told herself. She kept hearing noises behind her. She didn't know who or what was following her...but she was scared. She stretched her arms out only to get bitten. She winces and pulled back her arm and heard more snarling. Ritsu wraps up the wound and heard footsteps leaving. Somehow, Ritsu knew there was a village nearby and decided she was going to it in the morning. She slept good in the dream better than she did in the real world. It was daytime in the dream and Ritsu woke up feeling sick. Not a good sign. She checks her arm and the bite was infected with some kind of blood poisoning. Ritsu woke up from the dream and panted. She quickly checked her right arm and saw nothing. She gave a sigh of relief. She checked the time and it was 7:00 AM. She got ready for school.

*Real World, Time: 3:30 PM*

Ritsu and the others were in the clubroom, drinking tea and eating cake as always. But Ritsu was not eating her cake nor drinking her tea. She looked very tired. "You feeling ok Ritsu?" Mio asked.

"No...I haven't been getting any sleep lately. And I don't know why." Ritsu responded with a yawn.

"Have you been staying up late?" Mugi asked.

"No. I've been going to bed early." Ritsu replied.

"Maybe it's because all that stuff we did 2 months ago? I mean it still bothers me a bit at times at night." Yui said.

"Yui-senpai is right. I always have dreams of Brane...and I don't like it. Although in my dreams we defeat him all the time." Azusa replied.

"I don't think it's Brane." Ritsu said and Mugi serves her more tea. "Thank you Mugi."

"Welcome." Mugi smiled.

Elsewhere a portal opens up near Brane's home. A girl came out of it giggling. She had red eyes and was wearing a red dress. Her hair black in pigtails. She walked inside the cave home and found Brane's dead body. She drags him out of the rubble of his came home and placed him outside on the grass. It was very cloudy and a storm was brewing in. The girl in question, licked her lips and touched Brane's face and delivers a kiss on his lips. Brane turned into red fog as the girl's eyes glowed. She sucks in Brane and the girl glowed all over her body. She giggles. "Now...his power belongs to me!" She turned around and sees the cave home. "I think this will do wonderfully." The girl licked her lips and decides to rebuild the cave home using Brane's powers. She now had control over the Dark Figures...but she wanted a different figure, and with Brane's dark magic. She was able to create a dark creature. The same creature in Ritsu's dream!