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-A desperate writer(2018)-

The sight of the crawling bugs was horrifying beyond my expectations. Their metal plating scratched on to each other, and filled the alleyway with sharp, ear bleeding noises. Looking at the sharp, pointy end on their tails, made my insides feel like it shrank. Every single one of their tails crushed metal and concrete like it was nothing. It was much more easier for them to puncture human flesh.

[Kuurgh!]

"Hah!... Hah!..."

My legs shook like crazy when I suddenly saw the vision in my head. In it, we were just standing there in fear, and was unable to do anything. Then our bodies were brutally punctured by the sharp metal tails several times. Me and Chihiri screamed in agony as our blood flew everywhere, coloring my eyes red.

I had to do something. I needed to move right away. But my entire body was heavily anchored to the ground by pure fear. My muscles just refused to move.

Chihiri wasn't looking good herself. Doing everything in her power to move, but so scared that she was frozen in place. Unable to look away from the Tail joes while her whole body helplessly trembled. While struggling to move, I noticed one part of my body that I could move. Then a single idea came to my head like a spark. It was... a rather painful way, but with no other choice, I took it.

"Argk!"

I opened my shaking mouth and then bit down on my lower lip. The bitter taste of blood filled my mouth. And the sharp pain ran through my frozen body like electricity. Forcibly waking up my body.

"Run!"

After the pain snapped me out of the paralyzing fear, I screamed at the top of my lungs. When Chihiri heard my loud voice, her frozen body jumped as if she was startled. Thanks to her shock, Chihiri was able to move again.

With no time to think. We both turned our heads to the exit.

"Let's go!"

"Come on, come on!..."

Our just woken muscles hurt like crazy, as we immediately ran towards the exit with everything we got.

The distance between the exit was about ten meters. We had the right choice to stay somewhat near the exit, in case things like this happened to us. But the short distance between us and the exit were far from 'safe'.

The Tail joes were not idiots, and certainly weren't going to just let us escape.

"T-They'r-re get-ting aw-way!"

"W-W-We let th-them go, w-w-we are d-dead!"

"A-Attack! W-White h-h-hair is still u-usab-b-le without o-one or t-t-two l-l-limbs!"

They attacked us right after we started to run. A barrage of sharp metal pincers came pouring down at us like heavy rain.

"Shit! Shit!"

"Keep going!"

We ducked our upper body to avoid the sharp tails, but we didn't stop moving forward. If we stopped for even one second, we were going to be human skewers. The Tail joe's tails flew right over our heads and body. When their tails got close, we could feel gusts of horrifying wind blowing on us, as a reminder that we were this close of dying. Every step we took, almost a hundred tails came flying at us with murderous force. Even when they missed, they immediately pulled their tails in and stabbed right back at us.

"Left! Duck!"

"Whoa! Damn that was close!..."

Two tails that would've crushed Chihiri barely missed, thanks to her quickly moving exactly to my warnings. Chihiri gulped in shock and almost fell down, when she saw parts of the ground and wall, getting crushed by the tail's sheer force. As if getting my life on the line was a motivation, My ability which acted like it had a mind of it's own, reacted at just the moments when we really needed it.

[Argk!]

"Oh!... Fuck!..."

Me and Chihiri were able to dodge almost to impossible attacks, while not stopping thanks to my visions. However the alternate moments when we failed also popped up. Images of us dying in violent ways that was too disgusting to imagine, kept appearing inside my head in gruesome detail.

'I... think I'm going to hurl...'

The images was so gory, it was too much for me to handle. But despite that, I bit my lower lip and barely endured my urge to throw up my insides. I had not just my own, but Chihiri's life on the line, too. Because of that, I wasn't going to let some mere sickness distract me.

While trying my best to ignore the gruesome images, I calmed down the mess that was my head, and carefully thought about how we were going to get out of here alive. The exit was just ahead of us, but I had a feeling something was going to go wrong.

[Master! In front of you!]

[Wha?! Kurg!...]

As if to further prove my point a vision appeared. If I keep moving forward, I was going to get stabbed in the stomach from the front. And that wasn't the worst part. We had less than two meters left before the exit. But at that moment, the Tail joes attacked with all of their tails and covered the whole alleyway in a second. Judging how my vision ended there, it was likely that I died instantly.

We were certainly going to die if we just keep moving forward. In a hurry, I quickly looked at my surroundings to see anything that could possibly change the results. For better or for worse, three things were caught on my eyes.

It would've been nice if I had some time left to really think about this. But right now, this was the time to act!

"Chihiri!"

"What?!"

First thing I did was turn my head towards Chihiri, which she was running right behind me. With no context, I immediately grabbed on to her pants and shirt.

"Whoa! W, What are you?!"

"U-rah!"

"What theee?!"

When Chihiri turned and saw me with absolute confusion, I mustered every strength into my arms, and the second I managed to lift her up, I tossed Chihiri's body towards the exit.

Chihiri's not so light body went flying twenty centimeters off the ground, and safely made it outside the alleyway.

[Master! In front of...]

"I know! Urg!"

Right after throwing Chihiri, I gritted my teeth and quickly stuck to the right wall. With a gust of wind, the sharp blade that would stab my stomach, came at me like a speeding bullet. But thanks to me moving aside the last second, it barely missed me by a few millimeters and hit nothing but empty air.

[I, If it weren't for your ability, you would've been...]

"You don't have to tell ME about that!"

The owner of the tail would probably be furious right now, missing a guaranteed hit. It would have been a surprise attack for me, if not for my visions.

"Oof!"

'All right! She got out!'

While I dodged, Chhiri's body hit the ground and rolled at the bright brick pavement. I might have overshot the throw a bit too much. But I just couldn't take the risk, in case she didn't make it.

Now that I didn't have to worry about Chihiri getting killed. It was my turn to get out of here in one piece.

My heart was pounding, since I knew the Tail joes would attack with all of their tails at once. The exit was only a few steps afar. But I knew that running towards it would just get me killed, since I was an open target for them. The Tail joes knew which way I'll take. Which meant they knew where to focus. Their tails were fast and fairly long, that they'll impale me even if I do make it out. It seemed like there were no options left for me.

But luckily, I happened to get a hold of something helpful, when I moved to the wall. When I moved to the right, it wasn't just to dodge the tail.

"Hah!"

When the Tail joes seemed like they'll attack me with their tails. I quickly threw the 'thing' I was grabbing in my hand, to the Tail joes.

Fwoop-

The blue plastic trash bin I threw, went flying like a Frisbee and hit one of the Tail joe's head. The Tail joe that got hit in the eye screeched, as it shook it's head like crazy.

"A-Ack?!"

"W-What i-i-is tha..."

"W-W-Watch i-it!"

Crack! Crack!

Just like the vision I saw, the Tail joes attacked me all at once. But because one of them couldn't see thanks to my lucky shot, the blind one's aim went all over the place and it's tail hit an empty wall. And by doing that, it blocked over half of every other tails that was coming towards me.

[Master, now!]

"Already on it!"

I pushed the trash bin next to me and headed for the exit. I managed to block half of the tails that were going to attack. But there was still over ten more tails that was swiftly coming right towards me. Even after blocking almost half of them, I still wasn't out of the tails range. Three more steps left, and I had less than a second before the rest of the tails to follow and rip my body apart.

"Shit! What should I do?!"

[Master! They're expecting you to run on ground! Use the wall!]

"The wall?! How am I goi... Oh! Got it!"

Thanks to Amateratsu's advice, I saw a possible route ahead. While running, I ducked just enough that my body won't fall down, and managed to avoid the first wave of four tails. Buying maybe a few milliseconds by ducking down, I pushed the ground with my hands and legs to lift myself up. I quickly moved to the left and ran on top of the trash bins.

Bam! Bam!

Just like Amateratsu's words, three tails attacked parts of the ground I would've stepped on, if I haven't got on the trash bins. Hearing loud sounds of several things getting destroyed behind me, there was no doubt that there was still a wave left.

As a last resort, I kicked the wall and flew out. Finally escaping the alleyway. The sunlight that I thought I'll never get to feel it again, warmly covered my face, like it was greeting me for all the near death experiences I had to go through.

"I... got!..."

Shric-

When I started to taste the sweet feeling that was safety. A sudden creepy sound chillingly crawled inside my eardrum. Feeling like a knife was touching my back, I shivered and turned my head to see the alleyway.

[Master!]

Amateratsu panicked and shouted out loud to me. But it was already too late for warnings. My current sight and the new vision that just appeared, overlapped with each other. I turned my head to see the sharp metal end of the tail coming out of the dark alleyway. And then in the vision, I saw my own body.

Without a head.

'All that trouble for what?... For me to die like this?...'

The chill of death took over every part of my body, as the tail's sharp end flew closer and closer to sever my neck whole.

"Iyaaaa!"

At the moment when my mind turned blank. Someone grabbed my chilled arm and pulled me back. I felt my body moving towards the strong pulling force. Before I could figure out what it was, I woke up at the sudden sting on my cheek.

"Ow!... U, Uaahhhh!"

The sharp tail that would've cut my head clean off, just barely missed me and the blade like tip grazed a bit of flesh off my cheek. While screaming at the top of my lungs, I thought my heart would come right out of my mouth. One more centimeter less, and I would probably be a headless ghost right know.

I fell on my back at the hard pavement. I lied down on the ground, while gasping for sweet air and tried to keep my heart intact, when I heard a familiar voice clicking it's tongue.

"Jeez... man... What're you... going to do... without me?..."

Chihiri snickered as she stood next to me, placing her hand on her chest while she was gasping for air. I threw Chihiri about six meters away from the alleyway, so she wouldn't get hurt. But she ran back to the alleyway. Just in time to save me...

[Chihiri sama... Thank you... Thank you so much!]

Amateratsu didn't stop bowing her head down to Chihiri. Amateratsu looked like she was almost about to cry, of how thankful she was feeling about Chihiri.

"No pro..blem... Whew..."

Chihiri waved her hand at Amateratsu like it was nothing, before her shaking legs gave in and she fell down on the ground with her butt. I looked at Chihiri's face without words. Her face sparkled in bright light, as if I was seeing a pure diamond. It was like heroism was flowing out of her whole body.

When I tried to stand up, Chihiri quickly stood up first and offered me her hand while smiling.

"You owe me big time, man."

I looked up to my savior and firmly grabbed on to her hand.

"Yeah... Whatever you... Say!"

"Whak?!"

When I was almost standing up, I quickly turned my feet and grabbed Chihiri's back to pull her to my side. Chihiri was leaning and grabbing on to my hand, which made it rather easy to pull her towards me.

"The hell, Itou..."

Fwop!

Before Chihiri could finish her sentence, the same tail that grazed my cheek came flying out of the dark alleyway. It flexibly moved in the air like a whip, and smashed the ground where Chihiri was standing just a second ago. The pavement got shattered to pieces and the brick shards flew everywhere like bomb shrapnel. Even when I was laying low, one of the shards almost hit my head.

"Wha?..."

"Close call..."

When I lifted my head, the smashed ground was slightly punched in by the tail's deadly force. Chihiri, who was laying on top of me, turned her head and saw the damage. Her face grew tense as she took a big gulp. Obviously shocked at the fact that she almost died.

"And that makes us even, Chihiri!"

"Yeah, whatever! Let's just get out of here, before any other shit happens!"

"Then get off me, for a start!"

Chihiri rolled to the side and quickly got off my body. Ignoring my shaking legs, I stood up first and gave a helping hand to Chihiri, so we can both get out of here faster.

[M, Master! T, That way is!]

"T-Target's f-f-front of u-u-us! M-M-Move!"

"Y-Y-You first!"

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

"Whoa! Holy shit!"

After pulling Chihiri off the ground, the first thing we saw was the alleyway completely stuffed with the Tail joes. We were closer to the alleyway than we thought. Looking no more than two meters. The two of us were so surprised, it felt like our soul was going to jump out of our mouths.

The Tail joes disgustingly squirmed their bodies to try to get out, but was too stuffed to do so. As they squirmed, their metal plates scratched with each other and made horrible sounds, like scratching a rusty nail to a chalkboard.

"Not going that way!"

[We should move somewhere else! If there's this much Tail joes here, there's a possibility that the man we're looking for will not be far off!]

"All right. Come on, Chihiri! Let's move!"

Me and Chihiri quickly stepped back away from them. We moved to the opposite direction from the Tail joes, and ran in the empty road. I forgot that my legs were even shaking. All I could think now was to run away, and gain more distance from the bugs as much as humanly possible.

The roads were completely deserted. And I wasn't talking about there being only two of us. All the cars on the road were blown away when the Tail joes swarmed this place to find us. The paved road was a mess of ruined asphalt. Not only that, the smashed cars that was on the road, were leaking gas of was on fire while fuming black smoke.

We couldn't imagine that this was the same Akihabara. It was like we were in a whole new place.

"What the hell... It's like a war zone..."

"They really trashed everything, didn't they?..."

The buildings weren't in fine shape also. Almost all the windows that we could see were smashed to pieces. And most of the building's walls that were made with hard concrete had hundreds of clear scratch marks digged in(Which was obvious, since the Tail joe's legs were basically sharp metal). It was like seeing an aftermath of a tornado attack. Me and Chihiri were only in the alleyway, that we didn't realize how much damage the Tail joes caused until now.

"H, Hey, Itou! D, Don't we have to find the guy that summoned those bugs?! I thought running away isn't a good idea!"

While we continued to run, Chihiri who was almost out of breath, yelled at me as if I forgot our plan.

"Well, let's do that AFTER we gained some distance from them! Amateratsu! Now's a good time to teach me how to summon you!"

Amateratsu nodded and started to explain. The Tail joes won't be stuck in the alleyway for long. If they start chasing us, we had to be ready for them.

[Right! First, you should place your hand on the card, and try to feel my spiritual wave's pattern! Remember, every units have their very own wave patterns, master!]

"Uh, do you mind skipping some details?! Tell me the short version!"

[T, The short version? I, If that's what you want... Next, release your spiritual energy and pour it into the card...]

"Q, Question! How do I 'release' my spiritual energy?"

[Huh? Oh, that's right... Master didn't even know about that... T, This might me a little troublesome...]

Amateratsu's voice sounded like she was panicking a little. It looked like I had to know how to use spiritual energy, before I could even summon her. If that's the case. It's like I was trying to ride a bicycle, when I couldn't even walk.

"How do you NOT know how to use spi- 'whatever energy', Itou?! You see visions all the time, don't you?!"

"Yeah! But I don't feel like I use ANYTHING when I see them! And they pop out of nowhere without my will. So technically, I NEVER used them!"

[O, Okay... Imagine your body as if it's made out of water!]

"Water?"

With some doubts, I tried to imagine myself as water. It sounded easy in my head at first, but it really wasn't a good time to imagine my whole body made of water. Since I was currently using my legs that are a 'part' of my body, to run for dear life.

It was harder than I thought. But by squeezing all of my teenage imagination, I imagined my silhouette made of water. Then all of a sudden, the silhouette I drew disappeared and something else quickly covered up the image.

[Master, behind you!]

"Shit!"

Zhat!

With my head completely filled with the new image, I quickly ducked my head. And just as I saw it. A huge chunk of concrete that's big as my head flew right at me and barely missed mine by two centimeters. Chihiri gulped and turned her head back slightly. Only to scream and run as fast as she could. With no need to turn around, I saw the swarm of Tail joes quickly gaining on us.

Their sharp metal legs constantly scratched the already messed up ground. With them getting closer and closer by the second, another vision appeared in my head. I quickly turned my head to Chihiri and shouted out to her.

"Chihiri, jump!"

"W, What?!"

"Just jump! Now!"

Chihiri and I both jumped off the ground at same time. One of Tail joes that were close, sweeped the ground beneath us with it's long tail. With a strong gust of wind, we could feel the metal tail almost touching the end of our shoes. We weren't able to jump very high, but luckily it was enough. If we jumped lower than that, we would've fell down and be minced meat by their knife like legs.

"S-So c-close!"

"Oh my god! That almost hit me!"

Thanks to the vision showing up at the right time, we managed to dodge the attack, which basically would've doomed both of us. My visions were what's keeping me and Chihiri alive. But in this situation, where there was a whole swarm of giant centipedes hell bent on killing us, with no way to hide or outrun them. There simply was no vision that could save us from this dreadful truth. Running from them was just barely buying a few seconds until the inevitable. But these few seconds, were the time to decide if we're going to live, or die.

"Amateratsu! What's after imaging water?! Drop the details and get to the point!"

[A, After that, imagine your soul as a part of your body! Like another kind of liquid mixed into the water!]

"I, I know this is a first, but can't you two do it a b, bit m, more faster?!"

One of the Joe's tail came flying and barely missed Chihiri's body, tearing the sleeve on her uniform. Her whole face turning pale, Chihiri shouted at us in a big panic. Her yelling was not helping. But I would be just as terrified as her, if I had no visions not knowing when the Tail joes attacks are going to come.

The only way out of this was to materialize Amateratsu, just like the Tail joes. Amateratsu tried her best to explain as fast as she can. Before I get impaled or ripped apart by those fucking bugs, I wasn't going to give up on trying just yet.

[Next is!... Oh, no... Master! Chihiri sama! Stop! Step back immediately!]

"W, What?! What're you talking about?!"

"Hang on, what did she say?!"

Amateratsu talked like she just lost her mind. But then, the constant sounds of scratching metal behind us, suddenly came to a halt. I looked back, and the all of the Tail joes stopped on their tracks and was busy retreating back. In that very moment, a feeling struck like lightning that there was something WORSE waiting for us.

"Holy... Shit! Shit! Shit! Run!"

"Wha, C, Chihiri?!"

Before I could turn my head around. Chihiri suddenly grabbed my hand and ran back the way we came. The same direction where the Tail joes were waiting for us.

"L, Let go of me, Chihiri! The Tail joes are right fucking there!"

"Yeah! And THAT, too!"

"'That'? Wh, what're you?..."

Suddenly, like a flip on a switch, the sky quickly turned dark. It was getting late and the sky WAS getting dark. But the sudden change just now, was too fast to be natural. Getting dragged by Chihiri, I turned my head in confusion, and then saw 'it'.

The skies were not the thing that caused it. I couldn't see clearly what it was. But something as gigantic as a building, was floating high in the air. Covering me, Chihiri and even the street we were on with thick shadow.

"T, The fuck is that?!"

"You see why I'm running for dear life?!"

[M, Master, be careful! It's coming down!]

That giant thing, 'coming down'?... The second we heard Amateratsu's warning, it was like our lungs were sinking down on quicksand. Every possible worst scenarios came flashing before my eyes.

""Oh, shit...""

With barely a second to spare, me and Chihiri jumped to the side and threw our bodies on the ground. We ducked our heads down, and prayed for dear life.

PHAM!

At the sound of the bang, everything shook. giant shock waves came from behind us and shook the very ground beneath us. Car alarms, windows breaking, multiple objects crashing down. The sounds of everything around us being destroyed all at once, came at us at all directions and each sound roared loudly like cannon fire.

Along with the ground shaking, every passing second felt like an hour. While facing down on the ground, I was afraid that I'll never open my eyes again. Unable to hear my own thoughts, I desperately waited for the shaking to end.

"Hang on, Chihiri!"

I yelled as loud as I could, but was completely muted by every other sounds. I couldn't hear any of Chihiri's voice. The only thing I knew she was here, was her hand grabbing on to mine. I firmly held her hand like my life depended on it. And kept reminding to myself that she'll be okay.

"...to... Itou!"

"Ch, Chihiri?! You okay?!"

"I, I'm fine! Uhh..."

As the shaking finally started to fade. The first thing I heard was Chihiri's voice. I raised my head in a hurry, and turned to the direction of her hand to see if she's okay. Chihiri was panting for air, like she held her breath all this time. Chihiri's whole body, including her eyes and hand were shaking uncontrollably like she was freezing cold.

Despite looking like she just woke up from a nightmare, Chihiri showed no signs of pain. There were some scratches here and there, but nothing looked severe or dangerous. Her dirty uniform(including mine) covered in black asphalt was more noticeable than her wounds.

"Think you can stand up on your own, Chihiri?"

"I, I think so? Urh!... Nope."

Chihiri tried to get up, but her legs were too tense and was still shaking.

"Come on, I'll help you."

After barely getting myself off the ground, I pulled on Chihiri's hand and slowly lifted her up. While doing that, I turned my head around and checked our surroundings. To sum it up, everything everywhere was a disaster. Broken cars, fallen signs, anything on the ground was all damaged beyond repair. Glass shards, pieces of concrete and bricks were everywhere. And the buildings that had scratch marks, now had big crack marks. Some buildings were even collapsed by the shock wave, and was now a pile of debris.

And then, I froze up when I saw 'that'.

"Chi, Chihiri?... What's 'that'?"

"What are you... What the?!"

We saw our reflection bouncing off of a three story silver blade, that smashed the street in a single line. And the thing attached to the blade, was a massive arm covered in brown armor plating that were bigger than a car.

"Get back! Get back!"

"H, How big is that thing?!"

Almost falling down again, me and Chihiri stepped back from the blade as fast as possible. It was bone chilling when it was only a meter away from hitting us. The blade's obvious size and weight was more than enough to make the shock waves we just felt right now. The one who attacked us with the blade was massive like a giant. But we couldn't see who, or what it looked like, due to the building sized blade covering our sights.

"Amatertatsu, what is that?! Is that another unit?!"

[Th, That's...]

"Wow. You two are so puny, that I almost killed you all by accident."

Me and Amateratsu's conversation was cut off by a deep voice as almost loud as a speaker. It came from way above us, like it was coming from a helicopter speaker you see on movies. The blade that smashed the streets was slowly lifted up, while chunks of asphalt and concrete stuck on to it fell down on the ground.

With the blade out of the way. We saw the one who attacked us. After finally seeing it, I truly wished we had no idea what it was. But me and Chihiri played Vanguard for a while and knew about all sorts of cards. Without a second of hope, the moment we looked up, me and Chihiri realized that 'it' was from Megacolony.

"Is that... one of the Megacolony units?..."

"Wait, I've seen that thing on a card before! It was... some kind of beetle?"

[Yes. The 'martial arts mutant'. Also known as, Master beetle.]

"At your fucking service."

Ey, guys! Thanks for reading this weird ass story again! To sum up this chapter, is that everything can go wrong! Tail joes are the worst? Bam! Giant beetleborg(?) in the house!

Sorry for getting updates late. I'm working on this and the recent story, so I have a lot on my plate now. Also college, so you know what I'm talking about. Off topic, the views I'm getting are almost focused on the first chapter. I wonder what's up with that.

Anyone thank you again for reading, and I'll get another one cooked as soon as possible! Adios!