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Chapter one: Meeting a new Friend

It was early in the morning for Mek`kia Kurama , he was fast asleep in the Clock Tower at the center of the burned down village, he was there on a daily basis, to have a good view of all entrance's to the village. It was about 1:30 am and he was sleeping (one of the things he's good at) when a stranger came slowly walking into the village, he awoke when he heard the stranger trip over an uprooted pipe. He was a little startled and drew his rifle, quickly but carefully scanning over the landscape. It was then that he noticed the stranger that made the noise was a man carrying a large bright red blade and a black cloak with some weird silverish designs. He slowly followed to man with the sight of his rifle, when he noticed that the man was being followed by one of those "things". He quickly took direct aim and fired one shot, landing a bullet into the skull of the creature. The stranger suddenly stopped and turned around after hearing the shot of a gun and the creature fall to the ground with a loud thud.

The man suddenly looked around to find out where that shot came from, as Mekkia saw this he quickly ducked out of sight, taking his rifle with him. When the man couldn't see anything from the ground he decided he would have to take to the roofs. Mekkia knew if he was seen it might spell something nasty happening, so he decided to play it safe and get out of sight for now. As the stranger turned and began to walk over to a decaying building, Mek`kia popped back out to see where the man was going. Seeing that he was getting eerily close to the building that might let his stuff within the clock room to be seen, he decided to get the jump on the stranger. He hopped out of the clock tower window and grabbed the edge of the clock towers roofs, flipping himself up. He slowly but carefully perched down and aimed his rifle at the man and yelled out,

"You there, stop what your doing, put the blade down and raise your hands,"

The man suddenly stopped and stared forwards, not moving an inch, as Mek`kia saw this he aimed a little to the left and fired a warning shot, before proceeding to say again,

"Drop the blade and raise your hands, NOW!"

The man finally complied and dropped his blade; slowly raised his hands and spoke,

"Heh heh heh, who are you, if I may ask?"

Mek`kia opened his mouth to respond, but decided not to talk about who he was, but instead he said,

"I'm none of your business, but I do want to know who you are and why you're still alive?"

The man raised an eyebrow and spoke,

"I am Meyaku Karuya and what do you mean why am I still alive?"

Mek`kia realized this man may not know of anything that has happened in the past year, so he decided to tell him what happened,

"Well I mean how have you survived to uprising of the Secronom virus outbreak, it happened a little over a year ago, you haven't been bitten yet have you?"

Again a confused expression came over the mans face, and he spoke,

"Well, no I have not been "Bitten" by anything, what is Secronom and what is this virus you speak of?"

Mek`kia was dumbfounded, he could not believe what he was hearing. He did not fully know if this guy was pulling his leg or actually telling the truth. He quickly concluded that if he wanted to know more of this man, he would just have to go and meet him face to face.

"You stay right there, I'll be down in a minute. I wish to speak with you some more," Mek`kia yelled out.

With out thinking it through, he got up and ran to the edge instead of slowly making his way over. As a result of the lack of thought, he slipped and fell instead, not being able to grab a hold of the lip and throw himself into the clock room. He was now plummeting to the ground, his life flashing before his eyes. He quickly blacked out for the sudden rush. Suddenly Meyaku appeared right beneath him, holding out his hands. Mek`kia limp unconscious body landed in Meyaku's arms with a soft thud. He looked around to try and see where this man was living, and then he noticed a church. Meyaku gave it little thought as to other choice's. He then and there decided that was where this man had been living. He slowly walked the man he caught over to the church.

Minutes later....

As Meyaku approached the large decrypt church he could hear the faint sounds of people moaning in pain. He gently placed Mek`kia on the ground, and slowly unsheathed his blade. He walked up to the large decaying doors and carefully pushed them open, he looked inside and saw 5 or six people, all of them covered in blood and missing chunks of flesh. The creatures inside could smell the scent of the living quite well, it was at that moment that the large group of people came charging at Meyaku and leapt for him. He quickly realized that these weren't normal people at all. For some reason he felt like he had seen things like them before, but quickly shoved the thought to the back of his head. Meyaku quickly sprang backwards out of the reach on the oncoming horde of rotting bodies. As they came within striking distance, he quickly swung his blade at the charging creatures of evil and one by one each of their heads slipped from their original resting place and landed on the ground. He watched as each body fell wondering what in the world they were. He quickly looked back at the unconscious man he had caught and began to wonder if what he had said was true after all. If he was correct then that would mean that he had lost his complete memory of the past year or so. To find out exactly what had happened he would he to just wait until the man woke up.

Chapter two: Mile's away

A young man of the age of 24 was slowly walking down the center of a path in the middle of a slowly dying forest, blood & half-eaten corpse's lying everywhere, he could hear distant screams coming from deep within the dark rotting forest, he looked around and didn't see anything, but decided to find the source of the scream.

He began running through the miss matching tree's many of which had been clawed or uprooted, when he came upon a girl screaming as she fell while backing up from whatever it was that was troubling her. The young man ran up to the girl and caught her looking into her eyes as she pointed at something behind him, when he finally noticed this, it was to late, large claws came down slashing him across the back, making him fall to the ground moaning in pain.

He was then suddenly picked up by a pair of large clawed hands, as he was he quickly got a glimpse of the thing grasping him and to his horror, he saw a hideously mutated man, with large arms, a large torso and a small lower end. The mutated mans grip was getting tighter when all of a sudden the girl came running at him with a broken branch in her hands.

She repeatedly struck the man-creature with the branch until it released its grip on the young man, letting him fall to the ground. It was then that he had enough time to pull out his 12 gauge shotgun and blast 2 deafening shots into the man-creature's chest, tearing into it like it was nothing but butter, large chunks of rotten flesh flew everywhere as the thing fell to the ground.

The young man began laughing as he reloaded his shotgun and blasted the man-creature in the back of the head, just to make sure it wasn't gonna get up again, he reloaded again and leaned it against a tree that had fallen over, and walked over to the girl and removed the branch from her possession, to make sure she wouldn't hurt him.

The girl began crying as she fell to her knee's, while the young man just stood there looking down at her while wondering what to do, so he just got down on one knee and lifted her head and kissed her, she suddenly stopped crying and just closed her eye's and held the young man close to her.

Finally, they stopped kissing and the young man finally spoke,

"Well Ms, I hope your ok, and oh by the way my name is Ikaru, Ikaru Ryuka, and your name is?"

The girl just looked into his eye's, blushed and said,

"My name... my name is Hyruna Kurama, I was trying to get through this forest without being seen by... by that thing, but I guess I should've expected this, and nothing ever really goes to plan. So what are you doing out here Mr.Ryuka?"

"Well I... I was just trying to get to the village on the other side of this forest, because apparently its being protected by some high-tech equipment being used by some of the most highly trained personal, but I guess I might want to hurry it up now that I'm the company of such a beautiful women like yourself,"

The girl looked down a bit and blushed, she softly said,

"Well... well thank you, I thought I would never get to meet someone like you, but then again I also believed that something like this would have never happened, so I guess anything is possible,"

Both of the smiled and got up, Ikaru grabbed his shotgun, turned back to the path and both of them walked over to it, when they suddenly noticed that darkness was going to set in soon and things just get much worse at night. They decided to get through the forest as quickly as possible. They turned to each other and nodded, they both knew they would have to beat the darkness or they would certainly die, they both took off down the path running like mad men.

They ran for 2 mile's without rest, when fate decided to show its ugly face, Hyruna's foot got caught underneath a root that had grown out of the ground, she fell face first to the ground, but her hands stopped something very bad from happening, she began to whimper as she felt she couldn't move her foot.

Hyruna cried out to Ikaru, when he heard Hyruna's cries he turned around and quickly ran back to her, and said,

"Hyruna are you ok,"

"OF COURSE I'M NOT OK, I tripped over that root back there, and now I cant move my foot, I think I my have broken it,"

Ikaru started to poke around her foot trying to see which spots hurt and which spots did not, but in the end, they both knew she had broken her ankle, she wouldn't be able to run to village any longer, so they would have to set up for the night. They started looking all over for somewhere to sleep for the night, when both of them saw the same thing... an old log cabin.

Ikaru lifted her up and carefully carried over to it and put her down just outside the door, Ikaru slowly drew his shotgun and tapped the door open, when he saw nothing he decided to make something come out. He bent down, grabbed a stick and tossed it inside. Suddenly three infected ran to the stick to see if it was food, when Ikaru saw this he quickly lifted his 12 gauge and pulled the trigger twice, the buck shot from the shotgun shells inside spread, laying waste to the 3 infected instantly. All the bodies fell to the floor. Ikaru quickly leaned his shotgun against the wall of the cabin and walk inside and dragged all the bodies out of the cabin and put them in a pile, then going back to Hyruna, and bringing her inside. After placing her down on the ripped apart couch, he then went back outside and grabbing his shotgun. He came back in and shut the door, then proceed to barricade the door shut with furniture inside the cabin, after that he made sure that no light's were lit.

As Ikaru came over to Hyruna and sat down beside her, and asked her,

"Sooo, Hyruna, do you have any family still alive? I hope I didn't bring up some bad memories,"

Hyruna just looks away and looks up towards to moon, her eye's glinting in the light, as she opened her mouth slightly and softly said, "Mek`kia,"

Chapter three: Sleepless in the night

Meyaku quietly laid down inside the church, on one of the church bench's. He peered over at Mekkia, as a face of pain came over his face. Meyaku quickly got up and rushed over to the man and shook him gently trying to bring him back to consciousness. Suddenly Mekkia sat upright in a cold sweat, screaming in pain. Meyaku called out to him, trying to calm him down.

"Calm down man, come on, calm down, fuck, please calm down stop screaming, your going attract attention to us,"

Mek`kia calmed slowly, huffing and puffing trying to catch his breath, his had clammy skin. There was sweat dripping from his forehead, he was breathing heavily.

"God man, are you ok? What caused that?"

Mek`kia lifted his hand and wiped off the beads of sweat. He turned and looked at Meyaku, tilted his head and gave him a cheesy smile. Second flew by before he finally decided to talk.

"Yeah, I'm ok, I just had a nightmare. Oh and the name's Mekkia... Mekkia Kurama,"

"Well finally I know your name. What was your nightmare about, if I may ask,"

Mek`kia just looked away and stared at the moon, whispering the name, "Hyruna,"

"Hmmm, Mek`kia did you say something?"

He turned back to Meyaku, and said,

"Nah, I'm just mumbling something unimportant. So where are we?"

Meyaku stands up and opens his mouth to say,

"Well, we're in the church,"

Mek`kia had a confused look on his face as he heard that. He quickly stammered out,

"W-What, but I locked a few infected in here, where are they?" Just as the last word came out of Mek`kia's mouth Meyaku raised his hand and pointed at the pile of bodies lying in the corner.

"Hmm, well I guess that takes care of them,"

"Ummm, Mek`kia, I'm beginning to think that your telling the truth about this virus, but I really don't know how I can't remember any of this happening. How could this be happening?"

"Well, it's hard for me to explain, I myself can't understand why you have memory of the past events happening. Maybe if we retrace your steps we could find out why you don't remember anything,"

Meyaku just started to pace back and forth,

"But what if we come in contact with something, that's well tougher than these "Creatures"; will we be able to take it on?"

"Yes, yes we will, want to know why. Its because I know we can do it, we will find out why you can't remember anything, I promise you this, so lets get a good night sleep, cause tomorrow we are getting up early, we are gonna go on a little quest,"

"Ok Mek`kia, I'm gonna take you up on this offer, we have a big day ahead of us,"

Both of them smile at each other as they both try to fall asleep.

.....Meanwhile....

A young woman was running through a maze of destroyed building and fallen over homes, desperately trying to escape from a large mutated man, chasing after her at unimaginable speed. It was clawing through the concrete as if it was nothing but butter. It seemed to have trouble with keeping up though it was running at high speeds. It just seemed to be having trouble smashing its body through all the concrete.

The woman finally found an up-right building. She ran franticly up to the building and began to climb up the mound of rubble in front of it, in hopes of getting away from that thing. However, to her amazement as she reached the top she looked back and saw that thing trying to get up, but it was having a lot of trouble. Its weight was holding it down. Each step it took, the rubble underneath its foot just fell apart and crumbled.

"GET AWAY FROM ME," the woman screamed,

"NOOOOOO, AHHHHHHHHH,"

Mekkia and Meyaku quickly woke up to the sound of screaming. Both of them got dressed, grabbed their weapons and rushed out the door and out of the village into an old forest. They followed the path and past a cabin, they ran until they could not run anymore. Just as they came to a stop, they could see a light just a few hundred yards from them. Therefore, they decided that they would just have to push themselves. As they ran through the light they came into a large opening full of destroyed buildings and toppled over building that were still intact. However, that is when they noticed a giant monstrosity trying to climb up some rubble. They looked over and they could see the silhouette of a woman, and it looked like she was about to be killed. That is when Meyaku and Mekkia drew their weapons and charged at the gigantic creature.

Meanwhile....

"IKARU, come on get up, I think I just saw to men running down the path, I think we should follow them,"

"Hyr.... Hyruna, what, oh umm, ok lets get our gear and move out,"

A grumpy Ikaru woke up, got dressed, and got his gear together. Right before leaving, he had to take a leak. Hyruna looked around outside while waiting for Ikaru to hurry up and finish. A few minutes later Ikaru appeared behind Hyruna, and said,

"Ok Hun lets get moving,"

Ikaru and Hyruna ran down the path in the same direction as the other two men, and that was when Hyruna got the shock of her life. As Ikaru and Hyruna exited the forest they came into a large opening full of destroyed buildings and toppled over building that were still intact. That was when Hyruna looked around and saw someone very familiar. The whole silhouette of the person reminded her of... of... her brother. That was when she realized it was her brother. As the person ran towards the building Hyruna screamed out the name, "MEK`KIA!"

Mek`kia quickly turned around and saw his sister, he cried out, "HYRUNA!"

Both Meyaku and Ikaru turned to see this and were like, "What the fuck,"

"Hyruna, RUN, RUN NOW, GET BACK!" Mek`kia screamed.

It was at that point that the gigantic monstrosity noticed them and started to charge at them. Mek`kia quickly realized what was happening and spun around and charged at the creature. Meyaku also turned to see this and began to charge again as well.

"You won't touch my SISTER!" Mek`kia growled at the creature as he drew the blade on his right hip from its sheath.

Meyaku just stayed quiet and let Mek`kia take out his anger on this creature.

Chapter Four: Awakening inside

Hyruna hopped back into the forest when Mek`kia yell at her to run. Ikaru took a good long hard look at the two running towards the monstrosity and said to himself, "Man, they must have some serious troubles if they are actually willing to charge to their deaths,"

Then he ran after Hyruna crying out, "HYRUNA, HEY COME ONE, WAIT UP,"

As Meyaku and Mekkia reached the creature, Mekkia cried out, "Meyaku, you go around, and wait for my signal, we've only get one shot to do this, your gonna sweep kick this things legs, got it?"

Meyaku nodded, picked up the pace and drifted to the left as he ran behind the Creature. Mek`kia then leapt at the creature's face, and he held his blade with two hands above his head. Meyaku mistook this as the signal and sweep kicked the creature's legs. The creature began to fall backwards like a falling tree, Meyaku had to actually fight back the urge to cry out, "TIMBER," instead he just chuckled. However, that was a big mistake. As he was laughing like a little schoolgirl, he had taken his eye off the falling creature. Now he was directly underneath the thing, by the time he realized what he did, he did not have the time to get out. Therefore, he raised his hands and held the creature up, to Meyaku's surprise, the thing was lighter then he thought, but apparently not light enough.

Meyaku had a very hard time holding this thing up from landing on him, but what he did, not only affected him, it had affected Mekkia's plans. An expression of pure anger spread over Mekkia face as his blade went through the creature's stomach instead of its head. This just made things even harder, because now the creature's rage went right over the edge. The thing just started to swing it arms wildly, and eventually making contact with Mek`kia square in the chest, sending him flying backwards, and smack dab into a tree. He tried to catch his breath, but he couldn't breath at all.

Meyaku watched all this transpire and as Mekkia hit the tree, he screamed out, "MEKKIA, NOOOO!" that was when Meyaku's eye's went a neon black, almost like their were neon lights behind his eye's. He slowly picked up the creature, and tossed him and a bunch of trees. Meyaku looked like he had been turned into some sort of freak. His eyes were neon black, and his skin was pale. He drew his blade, charged at the creature, and drove his blade deep into its skull, blood was slowly seeping from the wound, but when Meyaku pulled the blade out, the blood steadily flowed out and down its face.

That was when Meyaku reach down and ripped its head off, and held it up. It suddenly burst into flames, and turned to ash within second. Meyaku wiped his hands together and turned to Mekkia and charged at him to. However, right before Meyaku drove his blade into Mekkia, he collapsed to the ground, and his eyes and skin returned to normal.

The girl on the building, the one that was being chased by this thing, jumped down from the floor she was on, ran over to the two fallen warriors, and called from the two people that had ran into the forest to come back out. Hyruna and Ikaru heard the strange voice calling for them to come back, neither of them knew who was calling out to them, but they both decided that they should go back. As Ikaru and Hyruna entered the clearing again, Hyruna could not help but see her brother lying beneath the tree, she cried out "BROTHER, NOOOOO," tears began flowing from her eye's as she hopped over to Mek`kia and fell to her knee's right beside him.

Hyruna grabbed his hands and started crying, saying things like, "No you cant die, not now, not ever," and "Come on Mek`kia, come back to me, please," everything was useless, nothing help. She got up onto her feat and cried like there was not tomorrow, but to her, there was no tomorrow without her brother.

As she turned and hopped away, Mek`kia coughed up some blood and said, "Now Hyruna, I think just walking away from me in my time of need, will only make thing's worse,"

"MEKKIA, YOUR ALIVE," she ran back to Mekkia and landed on top of him, wrapping her hands around him, squeezing him tight, as if she wasn't gonna let him go... ever.

"Sister, "cough" you kinda making it hard to breath," Mek`kia says as he chuckle's.

"I'm sorry for leaving you last time, I thought it was the best thing to do, I thought that I needed some space away from you, back now I know that I will always need you," Hyruna says in a giddy mood.

"Well, would you look at that? How in the world did that happen?" said Ikaru while pointing at the large mutated man.

"I really couldn't tell you, sorry man, I was unconscious," says Mek`kia.

"Neither do I, Ikaru," says Hyruna.

It was at that point they all looked at Meyaku, and then at the girl beside him.

"And what might your name be hun?" Says Ikaru to the girl.

The girl looks up and points to herself, and the rest of them nod.

"My name is Metoshi Korana. and I watched everything that happened, but I don't think any of you will understand anything I'll tell you, I couldn't even believe what I was seeing either, and I watched it happen. I think you'll have to wait until this man wakes up,"

"His name is Meyaku Karuya,"

Suddenly Meyaku sits up, rubs his head, and looks around at everyone looking at him. He shrugs his shoulders and says, "Did someone say my name? Wh... why is everyone looking at me?"

Mek`kia opens his mouth and says, "Ummm, Meyaku, look behind you, and see what you did, then you tell us why we're staring at you,"

Meyaku turns around and drop's his opens his mouth in awe, as he sees the mangled body of the creature, with the head missing. Meyaku starts to shake his head and deny it was him, but everyone just points out he was the only one able to have down that.

Meyaku opens his mouth and says, "I... I... I really do not know how in the world I did that, but now I am scared. Mek`kia, what happening to me?"

"I was kinda hoping you could tell me, Meyaku,"

Just then Hyruna chirps up and says, "Well maybe we should carry on this conversation back at the cabin me and Ikaru were in, come on, me and Ikaru will show you the way,"

Hyruna just tilts her head, give's everyone a cheesy smile before turning around, and gesturing for Ikaru to come to the front, as everyone else followed.

Chapter five: Thievery gets you nowhere

Hyruna and Ikaru were at the front of the band of marry misfits, leading the way. Meyaku walked slowly in the back, he watched his feet in shame. He did not know how exactly to explain what he did, let alone how he did it.

Hyruna slowly hopped down the path while Ikaru walked beside her, catching her every time she lost balance. Mekkia and Metoshi walked in the middle, Metoshi clinging to Mekkia's arm. Mek`kia felt bad for Meyaku, "he must feel like an outcast" he said to himself. Meyaku was just kicking a stone down the path, keeping to himself.

All of them walked for what seemed like an hour because of Hyruna having to hop the whole way. They finally came upon the cabin, but to even Hyruna's and Ikaru's surprise the door was kicked in, and a motor cycle leaned up again the outside wall of the cabin. Ikaru gestured for Mekkia and Meyaku to come to the front. When Meyaku finally looked up, he saw Ikaru draw his shoty and Mekkia pulling out his dual glocks. Meyaku thought that he should just stay put, until Ikaru gave him a look that said, "Get your ass up here".

Meyaku pulled out his blade, and rushed to the front. They all turned to each other and nodded. They proceeded to venture over to the cabin, and find out who was there. Upon entering, they saw that the entire living room had been ransacked. When out of nowhere to feet appeared and slammed into the three of them, sending them flying out of the cabin. What seemed to be an 18-19 year old girl wearing a jacket (open), jeans, bikini top, fingerless gloves, trainers, and a tool belt around her waist and goggles around her neck. She pulled out dual Semi-auto pistols and said,

"If you don't want to die, I'd put the weapons down boys," She gives them a cheeky little smirk and cocked her guns.

Ikaru raised his shotgun and was about to pull the trigger, when Mekkia, placed his hand on the top of the barrels and lowed it. Ikaru gave Mekkai a confused look, but Mek`kia just ignored it, and placed his glocks on the ground, as did Meyaku, and soon after, Ikaru.

The girl looked over at the two girls standing by themselves and then looks back at the three men, before chirping up,

"Ohhh I get it, you three were playing brave, ha ha ha I've seen this in the movies but not in real life, so this is pretty funny, well anyways loser's kick your weapons, ammo and all of your food and medical items please,"

Mek`kia had a look of pure hatred come over his face as he kicked his glocks over, but not letting the bitch know about his blade. Ikaru was the next to kick over his gun; a tear fell from his eye as he gave up his prized possession. Last was Meyaku, he kicked over his blade, and then tossed over the pack he had been carrying.

The girl slowly bent down and picked up the glocks and strapped them to her belt, and then picked up the blade, and the shoty, and turned to her motor cycle. She placed the weapons in the basket that had been welded to the side of the rusty cycle. She swung her leg over the cycle, and kicked the clutch, and pull on the throttle as did a wheelie,

"Oh and morons, my name's Wrench, and you've just been served, please come again," with that she gives them a twisted smirk and takes off down the path.

"Mek`kia, what do we do now?" Hyruna chirped up.

"Yeah," said Metoshi.

"I'm with them, oh fearless leader," Ikaru said with sarcastic tone.

"Meyaku, can you carry Hyruna, and Ikaru, you carry Metoshi, cause we're going after this bitch, we're gonna get our shit back," Mek`kia said with determination in his voice.

"I'm with Mek`kia, I for one want my shoty back," Ikaru snorts out, his teeth grinding.

"Me... Mek`kia, do you really trust me with your sister? Wow, thanks, I wont let you down," Meyaku blurts out before gesturing for Hyruna to climb onto his back.

"Metoshi, come on babe, your with me," Ikaru says as a failed attempt to hook up with Metoshi, but Metoshi just gives him a "whatever" look and climbs on his back.

"Ok let's get that bitch," Mek`kia cries out before charging down the path after Wrench.

2 days later...

"It's been two days Mek`kia, and still no sign of Wrench, can we stop now?" Ikaru cries out.

"Ikaru, I don't know about you but I have all the energy of a cheetah," Meyaku happily brags.

"God man, what are you, do you seriously not remember what happened to yourself?" Ikaru arrogantly blurts out.

"Both of you stop fighting, I can feel it, were getting close," Mek`kia blares.

Just as they reach the top of a hill they see in the not so distant path, smoke, and they all look at each other and stammer up the energy to run a little bit more. As they reach the smoke they see, that its that bitchs cycle, they rush up to it and Ikaru and Meyaku slowly place the girls on the ground.

Mek`kia draws his blade that he hid from Wrench, both Ikaru and Meyaku stare confused at the blade.

"Mek`kia, how did you pull that off?" Ikaru studders out.

"Well Wrench never checked to see if that was all our weapons, so I took the opportunity to not give her a reason to," Mek`kia said as he softly chuckled.

Just then they here the not so distant shriek of a girl, and they all rush in the direction of its origin. As they reach the origin, they see Wrench and another large man-creature.

"Oh for fuck sakes, is this motherfucking forest litter with these fuckers?" Ikaru blurts out, while walking up to that thing and punching it in the head, knocking it to the ground, turn turning around and crying in pain.

"GOD, that things head is like a brick," Ikaru says through the pain.

Mekkia charges at the creature, and easily putting his blade through its chest, slicing it into two pieces. Mekkia they stomps on its head, leaving a crater in its face, he turns to Ikaru and laughs,

"Oh its so hard, I think I might cry because of how easy it was the crush it," Mek`kia says while trying to hold back laughter. Wrench just watches in pure awe as the exact people she robbed, just helped her out. She quickly gets up, draws her guns again, and points them at the three of them.

"Ok losers we're even, now you, give me the blade," She says as pointing one of Mekkia's own glocks at him. Suddenly Mekkia grabs Wrench's arm and bends and twists it, and disarms her of all her weapons. He tosses Ikaru his shoty and Meyaku blade back to him, then Mek`kia grabs his own glocks and and puts them in his pack, then swings his blade at Wrench, stopping nearly millimeters from her neck.

"Now are you gonna be a good girl and not rob us again?" Mek`kia chirps up.

Sweat drips from Wrench's forehead and she gulps and slowly nods her head, Mek`kia shows good faith and resheaths his blade.

"Ummm, if I may speak, I'm Wrench,"

"Well "Wrench" your welcome to join us, as long as you don't rob us again. We'll give you all the parts we can find along the way so you can fix the cycle back there, then you can leave when its fixed, deal?" Mek`kia says softly.

Wrench slowly reachs out cautiously, and shakes Mek`kia's hand and says,

"Deal,"

"Well if your gonna be with us you better know our names, I'm Mekkia Kurama, the guy with the red blade is Meyaku Karuya. The guy hugging the shotgun is Ikaru Ryuka. Those two girls back there are Metoshi Korana, and last but most definitely not least is the other girl, my lil sister, Hyruna Kurama," Mekkia says.

"Well its good to know your names, sorry again about robbing you," Wrench says as she slaps Mek`kia across the face, and says,

"Sorry but that was for swinging your balde at my neck, asshole, you could have killed me,"

Mek`kia just simply chuckles and says,

"Well maybe that was my intent, but in the middle of it I thought other wise, heh heh heh,"

"Well we really should find somewhere to set up for the night, and it really doesn't look like there's a cabin in the area," Said Ikaru, so every nodded and started to build a large campsite, and by large I mean large.

There was makeshift tipi's and a giant fire going, the girls were all asleep in one large tipi as the three men sat around the fire talking. After awhile, they decided to take look out shifts and they played rock/paper/scissors to see who was first. Sadly, Ikaru lost and was the first to take watch.

Both Mek`kia and Meyaku went to the other large tipi and went to sleep, while Ikaru sat along side of the fire, and watched the surrounding area. Scared shitless he tried to hum a few songs he loved back when the world was "Normal".

He sat there for hours before he heard some rustling in some bushes is the distance, then quite a few long winded howl.

Ikaru cries out softly to himself as tears of pure fear rolled down his cheeks,

"oh fuck,"

Chapter Six: Flashback to life

Ikaru closed his eyes as a large skinless wolf jumped at him.

Flashback...

"Love, please get up," Ikaru's darling wife shouted at him from downstairs in the kitchen.

Ikaru rubbed his eyes, washing away the tired. He slowly sat up and sat on the edge of the bed, staring out the window; birds flew by tweeting their happy little morning song. Ikaru's hair was a complete mess, he had bags under his eye, and he looked like he had just gotten the shit kicked outta him.

He regretfully got to his feet and started walking towards the bathroom. He looked himself in the mirror and said to himself, "Ikaru today is the day that life becomes exciting," little did he know that later he would regret those words.

He quickly got undressed and stepped into the shower and turned on the water, at first he turned the cold water on full and yelled out, "HOLY SHIT THAT'S COLD!" He then went to the next extreme, accidentally turned the hot water on full, and almost burned the hairs off his chest.

He finally got the water to the perfect temperature and got to wash his body. He had a nice tall, well built body, and chiseled abs. He had always taken good care of his body from the day he learned of a gym. Some say that he cares more about his body then everyone else around him. He rinsed off the second his wife shouted, "Come on hun, your gonna be late for work," He sighed and stepped out of the warm shower and shut off the water. He wrapped a towel around his waist and went to brushing his teeth.

When he finally finished with his chompers, he walked back into his bedroom, pulled out the top drawer, and took out a pair of clean boxers. He carefully slipped each leg through its corresponding hole, and then proceeded to walk over to his closet and open the door. He reached inside and pulled out his best suit. He carefully slipped his arms through the dress shirts sleeves, the putting on the pants, and lastly the jacket.

He went back to the closet, bent down, grabbed his dress shoes, and slid them on. He closed the door and walked downstairs where his beautiful wife and child were. They sat at the table talking and eating some toast as Ikaru walked into the room, kissed his wife on the head, and rubbed his boys head, messing the hair up.

He sat down right before his wife came over with a comb, fixed her husbands hair, and gave him a cheesy little grin. He grabbed a piece of toast and ate it carefully trying not to get anything on his suit. After he finished his single piece of toast, he reached out and grabbed a cup of coffee previously placed there as he was getting dressed. After he finished that he got up and went to the door, and was about to step out without grabbing his car keys or his suitcase.

Fortunately, his wife remembered this, rushed over to him, and gave him the suitcase and his car keys. He rushed out the door, got into his car, and pulled out of the driveway. He drove for about an hour before finally getting to the courthouse-parking complex. He quickly got out of his car and ran to the doors. As he entered, he slowed to a calm speed, and walked to the Courtroom, and walked to his bench and sat down.

(For those of you whom haven't caught on yet, Ikaru his a lawyer)

He was to defend his client from a murder in the first-degree charge. His long time friend, Thomas Kingsfield was the Prosecutor, its was Thomas's first case, so Ikaru thought this would be simple, but Thomas was actually doing a great job, even with substantial evidence. Six hours into the trial a mob broke through the doors and everyone went into frenzy. The mob started to attack everyone in the benches, the screams of those being attacked could be heard from the street.

The guards pulled out there weapons and opened fire on all that were in the stands, both Thomas and Ikaru ducked out of the way, they both crawled into the isle and tried to escape, but that is when the mob went to attack them too. Thomas and Ikaru were separated at that point.

Ikaru luckily was able to escape through the prisoner entrance. He rushed down the hallway as members of the mob broke away and chased after him, attacking everything in the hallway. As Ikaru exited the hallway and entered the giant holding room, he thought he was going to die, that was when he saw his exit. A single window high in the corner, he jumped up as high as he could, but kept missing it, he kept trying as the mob made its way into the room. With one last jump for life, he grasped the windowsill and climbed out onto the surface.

As he climbed out, he thought that was the end of it, until he saw what was happening on the surface, he stared in shock as the mayhem originated from the streets, but things were much worse up here. He watched as the Mobs were actually eating their victims. Ikaru felt sick to his stomach. He fell to his knees and puked. He had a cold sweat and a racing heart beat. He looked like he had just escaped from a chainsaw-wielding maniac, but still even that would have been better.

Ikaru's first thought was to get his family out of the city. He looked around for anyone to help him. That was when you saw a lone man, slightly convulsing, while standing. Ikaru slowly approached the man and tapped him on the shoulder. The man slowly turned around and had blood all over his face. The man leapt for Ikaru, making him fall to the ground. Ikaru struggled as the man persistently tried to bite Ikaru's face.

That was when Ikaru Heard a single gunshot and a slight whipping sound as a lone bullet entered the deranged mans head. Blood splattered Along Ikaru's face. Ikaru looked over and saw a single police officer, with his gun raised and waving at Ikaru. Ikaru got up and waved back, it was a good friend of his, named Sebastian Raventhorn. Ikaru ran over to Sebastian and asked,

"Hey Sebastian, do you have your squad car near by?"

Sebastian pointed just down the street, Ikaru told Sebastian that they needed to pick up his wife and kid, and have to leave the city. Sebastian agreed and they both raced down to the cop car, and got in. Sebastian turned on the lights and siren, and they sped down the streets of downtown New York. They sped through the large crowds of deranged people, and into Brooklyn. They finally made it to Ikaru's house; Ikaru practically leapt from the car and slammed the door down to get inside.

When he got inside, what he saw was not something he wanted to see.

Chapter seven: A growing bond

Ikaru stood there shocked for a few minute. A large creature was hovering over his wife and child, luckily both were still alive, but not for long. The creature had to have been over 7 feet tall, its spinal column practically pooping out from its flesh. Its flesh had been stripped in many places. It looked like a man, but Ikaru knew this could not be just some normal man anymore.

Ikaru called out to Sebastian to come in here. Sebastian jumped out and ran up to the house, when he got inside he just stood in awe. He could not grasp that fact that such a thing could exist. Ikaru slapped him and yelled,

"God damn it man, OPEN FIRE, KILL IT!"

Sebastian drew his gun and started firing, unleashing clip after clip of round into this things back and head, until finally fell.........

Back to present day...

Ikaru sat there, his eyes slowly opening, the wolf getting closer, until... Meyaku rushed out from his tent, drew his sword and put it through the wolf. Both pieces of the wolf fell to the ground, as blood sprayed across both his face and Ikaru's. Ikaru just stared in awe, as Meyaku hacked and slashed through the oncoming wolves. When he had done away with the last wolf, he resheathed his sword and walked over to Ikaru, sitting on the cold hard ground.

"Ikaru, are you ok?" Meyaku asked.

Ikaru stared blankly for a few seconds until he shook and rubbed the back of his head. He spoke softly,

"Umm, Thanks Meyaku, I would have been a goner if you hadn't got up,"

"Got up? I could not get to sleep at all; I will just have this reoccurring nightmare again, I don't know what to make of it, but then again am I supposed to make something of it? Well anyways I'll take the next shift Ikaru, you can go to bed," Said Meyaku, looking down a bit.

"Ummm, Meyaku I don't really have to go to bed, I could just talk, with you, it's the least I can do, you saved my ass, so I owe you something," Ikaru said softly,

"Fine, just don't make to much sound, my heads beating like a bass drummer,"

"Well, I really want to thank you for saving my ass, I thought I was gonna be dog food for a second, I just want to know, how are you so good with your blade, and why is it red?" Ikaru could not help but ask.

"I don't know, all I remember is I woke up one day in the middle of a large field, my head felt like it had just been beaten in with a bat, I don't even know what happened to my family, if I even have one," Meyaku says as a tears fall from his eye, his fists clenching.

"Whoa man, there's no need to get aggressive, hey, why don't we just drop this topic, and pick something else, I know, why don't we talk about me!" Ikaru said smiling, yet again trying to make something all about him.

"Ummm ok, so what happened to your family?" Meyaku asked.

Ikaru sighed at the question, not know exactly what to say, he just stared into the fire, the light from the flames glaring of his glassy eyes.

"They... They are dead," Ikaru softly whispered.

"Oh, I'm sorry I ask, didn't mean to bring up memories, well then. We need less depressing topic," Meyaku chimed.

"Yeah, how about we talk about the others, if you haven't noticed we picked up the other two quickly, it's almost as if we were meant to be a group. Maybe it was meant to be, that this whole thing happened just so the six of us would meet, in Mek`kia's and Hyruna's case, see each other again, say which one do you think is older?"

Meyaku just sat there listening to Ikaru yammer on. He could not help but think that this may be natures will at work, creating a catastrophe... Maybe, to stop an even bigger occurrence from happening.

Meanwhile....

Mekkia was running through a field, towards his sister, when suddenly the field caught aflame and she turned into one of those things. Mekkia starting screaming out for his sister, all of a sudden Meyaku and Hyruna rushed in and shook Mek`kia yelling at him,

"MEK`KIA WAKE UP!"

The voices pierced Mek`kia's ears, as his eyes flew up open and he rose up in a cold sweat.

Hyruna threw her arms around him, tears rolling down her cheeks,

"Mek`kia its ok, I'm right here," Hyruna whispered in his ear.

"Hyruna, I just had the worst nightmare ever, I thought I lost you.

"Don't be silly, I will always be here right beside you, until the end of time, you're my older brother,"

"Ok ok, now, that im awake, you guys go back to sleep, im taking this shift!" Mek`kia blurts out.

Chapter Eight: A little young to fight

"Lucas, are you awake?"

"Mmmm, hmmm oh yeah, I'm awake... unfortunately. Why?"

"I... I just wanted to tell you I love you little bro,"

"Coty, why are you saying that, don't say that, that makes me worry that you think your gonna die,"

"Don't worry; I just wanted to tell you that,"

"How many times have I told you never to get attached, its not a good quality to have in times like this, if I were to die I would want you to move on quickly, don't dwell on the past, just think to the future,"

"Fine, you know I hate it when you show your smarts, it hurts,"

"Well mom and dad always said my smarts would be my downfall, that and I love messing with you, now get to bed,"

"Ok,"

Coty Michaels, older brother to Lucas Michaels. Coty is always joking. He always has a carefree demeanor around him whether it is in battle or during resting period. The only time he becomes serious is when "shit hits the fan". He has no problem with killing humans. He is also known to go into battle without weapons if caught off guard, using his semi-stylish street fighting to kill and improving weapons, Coty is 16.

Lucas Michaels, younger brother to Coty Michaels. Lucas is more silent barely ever talking to anyone but his older brother. In addition, he only listens to Coty otherwise; you will find him at Coty's side. When Lucas does talk to anyone other then Coty, it would be like talking to an adult, none of that baby talking shit, he is a very smart child, Lucas is 7.

Suddenly cracking noise's came from all around them. Considering Lucas's intelligence, he would have noted that before hitting the hay that they would kill the fire. Suddenly they surrounded by those things, one grabbed a hold of Lucas and began to shake him violently, Lucas screaming loudly. Coty's eyes flew open as he reached out and ripped the trench knife from its holster on his pouch. He quickly turned over and launched it into the creatures head, hitting it square between the eyes. The lifeless body flew backward to the ground. A little blood spurted from the wound.

Lucas fell to the ground with a loud thud; he had been shaken unconscious. Coty rushed up and shook his brother trying to wake him, but it was useless. Coty looked around at all the creatures and whispered,

"Come and get us, assholes," And with that, Coty rolled back to where he was sleeping, grabbed his M16 and unleashed a volley of rounds into every thing. He screamed as he did so, loud enough to attract even more. Soon there were hundreds of creatures surrounding them. Coty just laughed as he unleashed wave after wave of rounds into the awaiting walking cadavers. Coty was enjoying himself a little too much, he was laughing uncontrollably, until one of the creatures grabbed him. Coty immediately wriggled free and let loose more rounds. Soon Coty was out of ammo and there was still over 20 of them left. Coty ran back to his pouch, pulled out his Desert Eagle .50, and fired wildly. One after another, each body fell to the ground, a single bullet hole in each skull.

"Eat it, you sons of bitches!" Coty blurted out.

Just as Coty was about to unload another round into the last creatures skull, the gun clicked. Coty growled as he threw it to the ground. He rushed the monster and started throwing punches left and right. Blood spurted from the creature with every direct hit. With one last hit, the creature fell to the ground Coty started chuckling. Just then, another thing showed up behind Coty and wrapped its arms around him. Coty was shaken violently. Just as the creature was about to take a chunk out of Coty's awaiting flesh, a red blade flew through the rotting flesh of the creature. Blood was coming out of the things mouth; it lost its grip on Coty as it slid into two pieces. Its torso was now laying flat on the ground while its waist was still standing up right.

Coty looked up in shock to see a man cloaked in a black hood. The man had a black corset on, with a white shirt underneath it. He had black dress pants that were covered in dirt around the cuffs. A long black trench coat was draped over the mans shoulders.

Coty knew exactly who it was. The man had tried to kill him and his brother over a year ago. Nevertheless, Coty had the strange feeling that the man did not even know who they were anymore. Still, Coty did not want to take the chance, he ran over to his pouch, wrapped it around his waist, and rounded up his weapons. He put them back into their proper spots. He then ran over, grabbed his brother stuff, and draped it over his back.

"Look, I know who you are and I don't want any trouble,"

The man froze in the place he stood; a look of complete shock came over his face. He slowly opened his mouth,

"I am Meyaku Karuya, and I don't remember a bit of my past. Now you say you know me... I need you to tell me what you know," he blurted out.

Coty was shocked, not only did the man who tried to kill him forget that he tried to do so, but he has no recollection of his past at all. "Dude, are you serious? Like your not fucking with me, you're actually telling me that you have totally forgotten that you tried to kill my lil brother and me?" Coty screamed at the man.

Meyaku was stunned at the words that came from the Childs mouth. Could he have actually tried to kill them? Meyaku was in complete denial, could he really have attacked such a young pair of boys?

"Are you actually telling me the truth? Did I actually try... did I actually try to kill you, and your brother? Did I say why? DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING OF MY PAST?" Meyaku started blurting out in a rush.

"First, I am telling the truth, you did try to kill us. Second, no you did not give a reason why. And third, why would I know anything of your past, I'm no mind reader!" Coty screamed at him.

Meyaku became enraged; he came so close to finding out something about his past. He slowly drew his blade, the slick red metal glinting in the moons light. His eyes turned neon black as his skin turned pale. His long black trench coat started to flutter as a heavy wind picked up. Meyaku opened his mouth as spoke as he turned to look the boy in the eyes. Coty was freaking out; he had nothing to protect himself with, he was out of ammo, and only had his trench knife.

Meyaku raised his blade and charged at the boy; Coty dodged and ran towards his trench knife, still sticking out of the creature's skull. Meyaku turned and charged at the boy again, only when he swung his blade, it met against the slightly dullness of the trench knifes blade. Coty was sweating bullets; his pupils shrank as Meyaku swung repeatedly. Just then, Meyaku collapsed and returned to normal, the exact same thing that happened when Meyaku attacked Coty and Lucas.

"Oh god my head hurts so much," Said Lucas slowly sitting up.

"What did I miss," Lucas asked while looking at all the dead bodies and the one-cloaked body.

"Trust me, your not gonna be happy with my choices during the last hour," Coty said with a chuckle in his voice.

Chapter Nine: Captivated soul

Many hours later, after a lot of yell at each other, Lucas and Coty tied Meyaku to a tree. Lucas was examining the mans red blade, he could sense it had some power to itself, but it lay dormant. Coty was not one to think objects could hold power; he was a very skeptical person. Both he and Lucas would fight a lot over this subject, Coty would say things like,

"You say your smart yet you believe is such bullshit as superstition and fairy tales!" and "Oh god, here we go again, down the path to ladida land where the rainbow king rules over all the magical fairy bullshit. Lucas listen to yourself, your thinking complete non-sense,"

Coty was believed in superstition at one point, he loved the paranormal until he was cast out of every social group for his beliefs, and it scarred him mentally.

"Coty, come look at this, I know you don't believe in this subject anymore but you are the only person I know that has studied this dead language," Said Lucas as he held out the blade to Coty; Coty took it into his hands, his face slightly cringed as the extremely cold metal touched his skin. He looked at the writings on the blade itself, then the writings on the hilt. He recognized it to be a very ancient form of writing; it dated back before the 17 century. Many people believe it to be an alien text, but Coty and a few others people around the world knew it was from an ancient following of the Shadows.

Very few people could understand its text, let alone write in it. Out of all the subjects Coty ever had, this was the only one that interested him at all. Even though Coty was not a very knowledgeable child, he loved this subject with a passion. Coty read over the text quite a few times just to make sure that was he was translating was correct. He slowly opened his mouth and poke softly, almost inaudible. He spoke in the dead language itself,

"Caan Setuna Hinada Sunga Shina Kituna Yasuta Meyaakatina!"

Lucas listened carefully at the words, not knowing what to make of them until Coty looked up from the gorgeous blade and directly at his brother. He spoke again, this time more audible,

"Listen Lucas, I know you don't understand the language, so I will translate this for you. Eh-em, "By the power of the Shadows, We the fallen make proud this blade of fires rebirth to the one our people call Meyaakatina," Listen, The person over there his name is Meyaku, I believe this is the Shadow Peoples blade, and that he is one of their people. Yet he does not know it," Coty said with a bit of happiness in his voice.

Lucas looked surprised to see that Coty was getting excited. He watched as Coty played with the blade until it started actually moving on its own. It went from side to side trying to get out of Coty's grasp. Until finally it got out and floated there for a second, before falling to the ground and sliding over to Meyaku's feet.

"Well I guess that kinda means that actually is his blade, He is Meyaakatina. The blades chosen owner. That is the Shadow Vipers blade, it is said to hold so much power that its holder loses the memory of their past, all except their name. Therefore, I guess we know what happened to his memory. However an even bigger question has arisen, how did he come to be in possession of the blade?" Said Coty

Meanwhile...

"This is alpha six to Mother bird, over,"

"Alpha six, this is Mother Bird what is your six, over,"

"Mother bird, this is Alpha six, we have target in sight, what is the go code, over"

"Alpha six, this is Mother bird, go code is Charlie. Oscar. Lima. Lima. Echo. Charlie. Tango. I repeat go code is Charlie. Oscar. Lima. Lima. Echo. Charlie. Tango. Over,"

"Mother Bird, this is Alpha six, copy that, the go code is Charlie. Oscar. Lima. Lima. Echo. Charlie. Tango. Proceeding to capture target, over,"

"Alpha six, this is Mother Bird, we copy that, proceed with extreme caution, use of deadly force has been authorized, over,"

"Mother Bird, this is Alpha six, copy that, use of deadly force has been authorized, proceeding with extreme caution, over and out,"

Seconds later a large group of black suited soldier like personal stormed the area, they all wielded AR15's, they were wearing the exact same thing, all thick, black stealth suits, they had black helmets on and they were acting with extreme prejudice.

"Get on the ground, Get on the ground!" The men blurted out, both Lucas and Coty were stunned for a second, but they complied and hit the ground, the men came up behind them and put Lucas's and Coty's hands behind their backs.

They looked at the kids and then at the man tied to the tree, and were shocked for a second, they wonder if these kids actually did this. Minutes after they stormed the area, one-man put his right hand up to hi right ear and seconds later a large armored vehicle pulled up. The men grabbed Lucas and Coty and threw them into the back. They went back, untied Meyaku, carried him over to the back of the truck and threw him in as well.

"Lucas, where do you think they are taking us?" Coty asked nervously.

"Well, the decals on the side of this truck depicting a logo of Secronom, and seeing how we are in Europe, I'd say we are being taken to their largest facility, AC-73,"

"What?"

"AC-73 is Fort Romanov, Secronom's largest base ever conceived."

"What do you think they are going to do to us?"

"Well, we weren't the target, obviously, that guy was, we were just there, so they are most likely like going to use us in experiments, since they can let us go, we will know to much by the time we get there,"

"Oh god, we can't die now, not now, I'm not ready to die yet!" Coty blurted out.

"Coty, get a grip, if it's our time then it's our time, there is no way to change fate,"

Coty forces his tears away, so does Lucas, both just stare out the back windows, watching the world go by. Just then, two men and three women begin chasing down the truck. The children do not know who they are, but its Mek`kia, Hyruna, Metoshi, Wrench, and Ikaru. They knew Meyaku was in their, they had seen the truck go the way Meyaku ran off in.

Mek`kia got up to the truck and jumped on, when he opened the door; he was kicked in the stomach by one of the men. He fell to the ground and rolled, he stopped on his knees, and pulled out his glocks, and fired two shots, at the men in the back, one round landing in each skull. Their bodies fell out, but Meyaku did not come out, they feared the worst until they saw two children and Meyaku all tied up. The both Hyruna and Metoshi gasped at the site.

Just then, another truck came up behind then and turned sharply, the back door flew open and five men jumped out. They took the girls and put them in the back, while two men and guns pointed at Mekkia and Ikaru. As soon as they came, they were gone; the truck sped down the road. Mekkia dropped to his knees, as tears flowed down his face; Ikaru walked over and patted his shoulder. Just then, some odd-looking country bumpkin came up behind them and spoke to them, startling them both.

"Well howdy there partner, It seems as if your in a bit of a pickle," The man had a pair of farmer johns on, he was wearing a pair of hiking boots, and had a straw hat on his head. There was a Barret .50 draped over his right shoulder, while dangling from his right hip was a large hunting Knife.

"God man you startled us," Said Ikaru.

"It seems like it, sir," Said Mek`kia trying to stifle his crying.

"Well, I know where them city shit heads are going, but it'll be quite I bitch getting there, them bastards tried to kill me once, but they couldn't get the best of old Kyona, No siry, they couldn't," The old man said.

"Well could you tell us please," Asked Ikaru in a very pushy manner.

"That's gonna cost ya something sonny boy," The old man said with an evil grin.

Mek`kia and Ikaru looked at each other and nodded.

Chapter Ten: Our Solemn Hour (Part one)

"Wakie wakie sweethearts, time for your food," Said a guard to the girls in their holding cell. He tossed in three meal trays, all with the same thing, poorly made porridge, two burnt pieces of toast, and one over cooked egg. The girl's eyes flew open when they heard the voice and the scraping of metal trays against a cement floor. The sounds of panic echoed through the large hallway, it had to be over a mile long. The girls were in a frantic struggle trying to get up; it was very cold, so cold they could see their breath.

"Hy....runa...it's...so...c...c....cold," Metoshi stammered.

"I...I...know Metoshi...maybe... we can...get some... blankets," Stammered Hyruna.

The girls started yelling for the guard to come. They had to have been crying out for him to come for hours, until finally a tall young guard whom looked to be twenty-nine came running up.

"What's wrong, you have food right?" Said the young man.

The girls told him that they were extremely cold, when the guard heard their pleas he ran off. The girls thought he had left them, until nineteen minutes later he returned with at least what seemed to be ten blankets.

"Here you go, these should keep such lovely women as yourselves warm, oh and I just want to know, what were you guys doing trespassing on Secronom property anyways?" The young man asked.

"We weren't trespassing at all; we were in the middle of the forest trying to get our friend back, when these freaks pulled up behind us, grabbed us and threw us into the back of their truck. Oh and I remember seeing two boys in the first truck, that is all I can remember, Metoshi, Wrench is that the same you remember?" Hyruna asked.

The other two girls looked at her and nodded.

"Well that's not what I heard, and you don't want to know what they have planned for you. THEY ARE GOING TO USE YOU IN THEIR NEW EXPERIMENT!" The man blurted out.

"Oh shit, this isn't good at all, not good at all," Wrench exclaimed.

"Thanks Wrench that was very uplifting," Hyruna said in a scolding tone.

At that point, Metoshi broke out crying, she fell to her knees as tears flowed down her cheeks. Wrench caught her and pulled her over to the beds in the corner.

"Listen... Ummm,"

"Anthony... Anthony Takana,"

"Listen Anthony, we're innocent of all the charges and I can tell you feel we are too, and that is why we need your help getting out of here. We can't be turned into experiments for their own selfish needs," Hyruna pleaded.

Anthony paced back and forth thinking it over all while wrench was with Metoshi trying to calm her down. Hyruna was gripping the bars.

Meanwhile...

"Here you go boys, your gonna put these on and do everything I ask for, and in an hours time I will tell ye where them city thumpers went," said the old farmer while holding up two maid outfits.

Mek`kia and Ikaru looked at each other, and had a disgusted look on their faces, but oddly enough they agreed. They spent the better half of an hour doing the old man's deeds. About forty-five minutes in, they were exhausted, they had done everything the old man asked for, and they were starting to worry about what else the old farmer had in store.

"Both of ye have been a great help around here, and for that I'm grateful, now I'm free to go out for food everyday, seeing how you two have done everything I needed you to do in less time than an hour, I will tell you where they went," The old men said, both Mek`kia and Ikaru were about to jump right out is their skin when they heard this.

"About thirty minutes down the road is a large fork in the road, if you go left you will regret it, but if ye go right you'll find a large facility, but that's just the half of it, the other three quarters of it is under the ground, yes siry," said the old man.

Mek`kia and Ikaru thanked the old man, got redressed in their closes and ran out of the house and down the road.

Chapter Eleven: Our Solemn Hour (Part Two)

A lone man dressed in a black suit walked down a long corridor and into a large room at the other side. The room had to have been 3000 meters from the ground and had a view of the whole landscape, including the forest. It was a giant furnished office like room, but the walls were pitch black as was every other piece of furniture in the room. There, in front of the large shaded window stood a man cloaked in a black hood. The man had a black corset on, with a white shirt underneath it. He had black dress pants that were a little dusty along the cuffs. A long black trench coat was draped over his shoulders.

The black suited man whom had walked into the office knelt down in the middle of the carpet that was in the direct center of the room. As he knelt down he brought his right arm up to his chest as he opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted.

"So Takani, I hope you bare news of experiment 001X's successful capture or you will be begging the grand creator for forgiveness before your execution,"

The man on his knee gulped at the comment, even though he knew that the news he bared was the news his master wanted to hear.

"L... Lord Heguta... We have successfully captured experiment 001X. It is now being held in the cryo-containment center on level four. It is under extreme guard. What do you wish for us to do now?" the man said.

The man cloaked in black spun around, giving off an evil chuckle as he did so. He walked over to the desk, and slammed his palms against the desktop.

"Nothing, I want none of you to touch it at this point, I will go and deal with it myself, when I'm done, I want you to get the machine ready, is that understood?!" The man cloaked in black blurted out.

The man in the black suit arose and slammed his fist into his chest, making a loud thump as he said,

"Yes my lord, it will be done," and with that, the man in the black suit spun around and walked out of the room and down the hall. As for the man cloaked in black, he slowly turned around and pressed a button making the metal shades on the window open. He smiled as he walked over to a picture of an old man with a short gray beard and a black hood draped over his head, he spoke softly to himself as he raised his hand and ran it over the face in the picture,

"Soon Father, very soon I will be able to create the perfect world you wanted so deeply to see, and now that we have experiment 001x back, I may even be able to bring you back to see it. Oh how glorious it will be!" The man started laughing evilly as he turned around and walked out of the room and down the hallway.

Thirty minutes later...

A long squeaking sound could be heard as the man cloaked in black opened the door to a large cryo room, a large group of people clothed in either black suits or white overcoats stood around the opened door. The man in black walked into the small room and over to a keyboard rising from the floor. Suddenly the door shut as everyone outside of the room started to talk. At the very center of the room was a single tubular holding container, with a shadowy figure inside of it.

The man began typing on the keyboard, and with a strike of the enter key, the door to the large tubular container slid open, a strange mist poured out. The shadowy figure slowly started to reveal itself... it was a man. He was quite naked and had a large black shadow tattoo on his chest, and his long black hair dangled from his head. The man clothed in black walked up to the container and ran his hand down the man's chest, before pulling his hand away, making a fist with it and slamming it into the man's chest.

"Oh dear, you tried to elude us, but you didn't think to leave the forest did you, huh did you, ANSWER ME YOU FUCKING WORTHLESS SCUM!" The man draped in black said right before bringing his hand up to the man's face, rubbing his cheek, he whispered into the man's ear,

"Oh dear, I am so sorry my pet, but you made father quite upset, and that doesn't bode well with me. I sorry I hit you; please forgive me my pet,"

Suddenly the man's eyes flew open, he looked around franticly and that was when his eyes saw something very familiar, the face of the man in black, suddenly memories flooded his head. He fell from the container and gripped his head.

The man draped in black looked down and gasped, he fell to one knee to catch him, he was now in his arms, that was when the man in black spoke softly,

"Oh my, Meyaku my pet, are you alright, we can't let you get hurt now, that will just upset father even more,"

Yes, it was the one and only Meyaku, suddenly Meyaku's eyes went a neon black as his skin turned pale once more as he lunged at the man and wrapped his hands around the his throat, as he yelled at him,

"What did you do to me? What did you do to me? KINATA HEGUTA, WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!"

Suddenly a voice came from the Speaker above the door,

"Lord Heguta, it seems experiment 001X has regained his memory, do you wish for assistance?"

Kinata pushed Meyaku from on top of him and shook his head, he got up and walked out of the room and shut the door behind him. Just then, a transparent green gas flooded the cryo room. Meyaku couched as his eyes and skin retuned to normal. He pounded his fists on the window, Kinata just kept on walking.

"PERPARE IT NOW! Get him into the chamber quickly, we only have one shot at this, Got it?" Kinata ordered all the personnel in the center. They all slammed their fists onto the chests and shouted,

"Yes my lord, it will be done!"

The center was empty within a matter of minutes, and they brought Meyaku with them. Kinata looked around and noticed that no one was in the center. He walked over to a large container that had a label on it that said "Confiscated articles" He typed on the number pad next to the door and the door flew open. He reached inside and pulled out Meyaku's blade.

He ran down the hallway and into the elevator, he reached out and pressed a button with a weird symbol on it. Suddenly a red flashing light appeared in the elevator as the doors closed. A rather large key board came out of the left side of the elevator, as did a screen. He walked over to it and punched in a few keys and hit the "enter" key suddenly the screen went black. A single white rimmed box appeared with a black text box in the center of it. He started typing in rapidly and hit "enter" again, this time there was a rumble then the sound of the elevator moving. The key board disappeared, as did the screen.

A few minutes later the elevator doors slowly opened, revealing a rather large room filled with scientists and men in black suits. Kinata walked through the narrow path that leaded to a large machine with a slot just big enough for a blade to fit in it. Kinata lifted the blade and licked the softly glinting metal, then slowly reached down and slid it into the slot.

The machine gradually started as a red flashing light began engulfing the room. A look of extreme satisfaction came over Kinata's face as he reached over and pressed a certain blinking red button. As soon as it was pressed, a large cryo containment capsule arose from the center of the room. Inside it sat a lonely Meyaku under a heavy drug induced coma.

Kinata began laughing evilly as he watched his father's glorious plan come together. He could not help but feel a sense of accomplishment as a large tesla coil came out of the back of the machine, and was pointed directly at Meyaku's holding container.

Meanwhile...

The dynamic duo Mekkia and Ikaru raced down the hallway of the large facility when all of a sudden red lights began flashing. The whole place began rumbling, Mekkia and Ikaru both lost their footing as they fell to the floor. They looked at each other before getting up and proceeding to run down the hallway again. Just as they reached another intersection, they could hear some footsteps. Mekkia and Ikaru both jumped out at the same time and were about to kill whomever it was when all of a sudden Mekkia saw his sister. He dropped his glocks and stood there for a second, while tears flowed down his face.

He quickly ran over to Hyruna and wrapped his arms around her. Everyone just stared, just then Ikaru blurted out,

"Can we continue this little reunion later..." Ikaru started to trail off when his eyes caught sight of two children standing at Metoshi's side.

"Ummm, who are they... Wait we can talk about this later, first we gotta find Meyaku," Said Ikaru, finally showing a sense of reason.

"He's right, it's about time we get to the bottom of this and see what the fuck id going on!" And with that they took off down the hallway, forgetting something, they did not know where they were going, that was when they turned and asked the guard.... Anthony.

"Ummm where exactly are they, Anthony?" Hyruna asked.

He stood there and thought for a second, before finally remembering that they went into the facilities Top floor complex.

"They went into the top lab complex, on the top floor. It is going to be heavily guarded, because we cannot use Lord Heguta's personal elevator,"

They all looked at each other in agreement and took off down the hallway. Minute's later the lights went out and a loud growling sound came from behind them.

"Mek`kia what's going on?" Hyruna asked in a scared tone.

"I do not know, but whatever it is I will take care out it, Ikaru you take them and continue on going," He said in a determined manner.

"Are you sure?" Ikaru asked.

"Yes, I'll be ok now get going. Make sure you get there before they do something to Meyaku, now hurry!" With that, he charged into the darkness behind them.

Tears began rolling down Hyruna's face, though no one saw it. Ikaru told the others to all hold hands as they ran down the hall. They all gripped each other's hands and took off, leaving Mek`kia on his own accord.

There stood a lone man in a world pitted upon itself, ready to do his part to rid it of this evil. There in front of him stood a monstrosity so brutal it would make even the mightiest men cower in fear. It had slimy skin as blood pooled on the floor, oozing from its body. Mek`kia could hear the pouring on a liquid and used this sound to pin-point the creature's position.

He took up arms and rushed towards the sound, his eyes widened as he fired at the darkness, the light from the firing illuminating the creature, at first he believed he was dreaming until it raised a large paw-like limb and swipe at him, making direct contact, sending him flying at the wall.

He hit the wall with such force that it winded him for a complete second. After he caught his breath, he jumped up and ran toward it again, firing a barrage of round towards what seemed to be its head.

A long ways away, Hyruna and the others could hear the faint sounds of shots being fired. They kept running as the tears flowed more heavily down her face.

Ikaru also had a worried look come across his face, although he would never admit it, even though he did not fully know Mekkia, he still counted upon him, and right now Mekkia was counting upon him for once, and he wasn't about to let him down.

Mekkia was again slammed into the wall and knocked breathless, But yet again as the stubborn fool he was, he got back up and was about to firing another volley of rounds into "its" head, when all of a sudden his guns clicked. He scowled as again he was slammed against the wall, but this time he knew this was going to be even harder. It was at this point he got pissed, he reached his hip and revealed his blade and again he charged towards the sound. He swung wildly at the creature, knowing that had was making actual contact and doing some damage. Until, the creature stood up and extended some sort of bone blade-like thing from its arm, Mekkia could see something of the sort happening and thought to himself, "Oh god no,"

Chapter Twelve: Stand my ground

Mek`kia stammered to his feet, his left arm gripping over his stomach as he coughed quite a bit. He knew this was not going to be as easy as he thought. Again, the creature swiped on of its paw-like hands at him, this time he was able to dodge its futile attack and avoid any further internal damage. He smirked as he charged at the large shadow in the darkness and swung his blade, only to be met with a clanging sound as if he hit a wall. Suddenly he felt the object he hit push back upon him, he jumped back as it swung at his chest. He looked up and saw a fast moving shadow approaching him with incredible speeds. He managed to jump out of the way but at a price, there was now a large scratch across his chest itself.

"Aggh! That hurt you son of a bitch," He blurted out at the creature.

Yet again, he charged at the creature, running and jumping in a zigzag pattern, to try to confuse it. It worked for he reached it without it being able to slam its arm into him again. He jumped at what looked like its chest and plunged his blade deep within it. It let out a high-pitched screech as it shook him off, which sent him down the hallway without his blade in hand. He looked all around in the darkened hallway for his blade, scrambling to the ground trying to find it. That is when the reality of this situation hit him like a ton of bricks. He looked up and squinted as saw the figure of his blade, still suck in the creatures chest. It was trying so desperately to remove the blade from its chest, its screeching filling the hallway like a screamo band in a concert hall.

Mek`kia fell to his knees cupping his ears trying so hard to keep the god-awful noise from his head. It was driving him crazy, he began smacking his head against the wall, just in hopes it would deafen him for just a little bit, but it was all in failure. He knew he would just have to suck it up and charge through the noise to finish this thing off. He took off his shirt, rolled it up, making a makeshift earmuff, and tied it around his head covering his ears the best he could. He stood up slowly and smiled,

"You think you have me beat, don't you ugly asshole, then you do not know who your dealing with, I am Mek`kia Kurama, Trained as a military assassin and cast out for my unorthodox tactics and weapon choices, I will kill you and there is know denying it!" He said as he rushed towards it, its screeching getting louder as he came ever so nearer. His pupils shrank as the noise entered his ears again, causing him to lose balance a little in shock. He pressed on trying as hard as he could, the noise growing ever more present in his eardrums. Tears of blood began dripping down his face as the sound began piercing his brain like a spear, a normal man would have turned by now, but he was not a normal person, he had to destroy this thing or it would kill his only family.

"Aggggggghhhh!" He belted out in pain as he leapt for his blade, griping it by the handle and jerking down on it. The sound at this point was unbearable, it was spinning around in his head like a bad memory, and the tears of blood flowed faster as he jerked harder on his blade, trying to rip the creature in half with it. He could not take any longer, just as he was about to let go, the creatures chest gave way and his blade began ripping through it like a saw through an old maple. He screamed as he pulled out the blade and backed away fast. The creature screeching as blood poured from the large rip in its chest, it clawed at its chest trying to stop the pain, but it was futile.

As the blood poured from its chest, its screeching began to lower, almost as if it was losing the will to continue, with one last screech it began swaying back and forth, its arms falling from its chest and just dangling at their own sides. Mekkia was directly under it as it began to fall in his direction, at fist he began stepping back slowly, but then it suddenly turned it running as he desperately tried to get from under its path. He narrowly escaped an early fate as the creature slammed into the floor, into its blood puddle sending every which way just as Mekkia turned to see it hit. Blood was now splattered across his face and most of the front side of his body. He wanted to hard to jump and cheer in celebration of his victory but he was to beat.

Just as he turned to walk down the hallway, the creature reached out with its bone blade-like thing and jabbed him in the back and his calf. It did not go deep into his back, just about an inch, but it went about two inches into his calf, he turned and slammed his blade through its head killing it instantly. He fell to his knees and crawled over to the wall, as blood seeped from his leg and back. He took of his earmuff and tied it around his calf, covering the wound there, but he had nothing to use on his back. That was when he noticed his back was getting warm, he pulled away from the wall and felt around for what it was, and that was when his hand brushed up against wall mounted heater. He reached over to his blade through the pain and pulled it out and stammered back as it came loose.

He lifted it above his head and smashed it into the heaters cover, loosening it to the point he cloud pull it off, he dropped his blade had fell to his knees. He pulled himself over to the heater, yanked off it casing and threw it down the hall to the best he could. He reached out and took hold of one of the heating coils and began pulling on it, The burning hot metal coil began to singe his skin as it came loose, and finally came right off. He reached back and began to press it against his back wound, screaming in pain as he did so. He soon collapsed from the immense pain, the coil falling from his hand and rolling out of reach. It was there the limp body of Mek`kia Kurama laid, almost lifeless all except the slight movements as he breathed, but soon even that stopped. Blood was dripping down the walls and ceiling. The strong smell of rotting flesh and iron filled the air. Moreover, for some strange reason, the lights suddenly flickered back on. Filling the hallway with light again.

Quite a ways down the hall, the lights slowly fluttered on above Hyruna and the others. They all cheered loudly jumping up and down in delight that Mek`kia did it, but none of them knew at what a heavy price he paid.

They continued down the hallway when they came upon doors that lead to the main stairway, they quickly bashed them open and were about to go up when Ikaru blurted out,

"I'm going back for Mekkia, Anthony you take them and keep going, now go, I'll be back with Mekkia!" with that he ran down the hallway, back in the same direction they came in. Anthony looked at him and wondered why those two men had such courage, why they were so selfless, then he turned and ran up the stairs, Hyruna and the others followed.

Ikaru ran down the hallway with vigor, his intentions were pure and selfless; he had only been like this once in his life. Suddenly he felt as if there was something very wrong, something or many persons following him. He quickly turned to see nothing there, he still felt as if there was something dreadfully awry in this hallway. He turned back around only to get a quick glance at someone tackling at him. The two tumbled to the floor, grappling at each other trying to keep one another from standing up. Ikaru finally gets the upper hand and knees the bastard in the crotch, he felt bad about it but he knew he had to do it. As he rose to his feet to dust himself off, he noticed more men surrounded him; they all wore the same thing... Black suits, and they all had a pair of black collapsible tactical batons.

Ikaru just snickered as he stared at the large group of men, all of them grinning at the lone man in a white T-shirt, Yankee's baseball cap, and a pair of torn jeans. Ikaru brought out his shotgun and pointed it at the men in front of him, watching their every move waiting for the right time to strike. All of them were like this for minutes on end, until Ikaru finally opened his yap and broke the silence,

"Well, are we gonna get this done already, or do you guys wanna sit around and braid each others hair?" This got them angry; one of them ran at him with both hands up in the air. Ikaru spun around and round housed him in the face, spending him to the ground with one hit. Ikaru smiled and called upon more of them, three more ran at him again with all their arms in the air, totally unaware of the pain they were about to endure. Ikaru gave them a smirk as he ran towards them, swinging fists left and right, slugging each one in the face with his fists. One by one, they fell to the ground, and then suddenly there was a sharp pain in his shoulder. He looked back and saw that another one had ran up behind him and just smashed his shoulder. He cried out in pain and gripped his shoulder, out of instinct.

They began pouring into the one spot Ikaru was in, the inner circle holding him down as a few others began climbing atop of him. Out of nowhere came a deafening sound that echoed between the walls, blood was blasted upwards to the ceiling. The men began pulling away; backing up slowly; blood had been sprayed all over them as Ikaru pulled the trigger of his shoty. He snickered as he flipped the lifeless body of one of the men off himself. He gave them all a smirk as he lifted the twin-barrels of his 12 gauge and winked at the them. He unleashed another volley of buckshot into their carelessly awaiting bodies.

He couched down, popped out the two spent shotgun shells, and slid two new ones into their spots, lifting the barrels back up he let out two more torrents of blazing hot lead at the men, whom were in a futile attempt to retreat. Again, he reloaded and went through the procedure until every one of them was dead. Ikaru gave off a smug grin as he rested the top of the barrels against his right shoulder,

"I guess you dumbass's should have not messed with me, now look at ya, you just puddles beneath my feet," said a very cocky Ikaru, very unaware of the large fist coming straight at his back. With a gasp for air, he was sent flying by an unknown force; he flew through the air with ease, but slid on the ground in pain. The entire left side of his face was cut up and bloody, he reached up to touch his face, but found it to painful to even his touch. He spun around to try to get a look at the lowlife that caused this. His eyes grew wider as he gazed upon a large mutated man.

"Oh god damn it, why does it have to be another one of you?" He said aloud in hopes it would just disappear, but it did not. The creature let out a deepened roar as he barreled down the hallway, directly at him. He cringed as he ran towards it, not know what had gotten into him. As they clashed the hallway began to buckle as tiling began flying from the wall in which they were held. Shards began bombarding them, cutting and scraping them, but not detouring their hatred for each other.

"Jesus H. Christ, what in the world was that?" Ikaru asked

Like before in the woods, Ikaru let out a loud war cry as he reached back and slammed a fist into the creatures head, but unlike before this time his punch actually had an affect. The creature was sent down the hallway and into a wall, creating a large crater in its foundation. The ceiling began crumbling, and Ikaru knew that was not good, he would have to finish this quickly, or risk becoming a pancake. He ran towards the creature, letting out yet another furious war cry. He impaled his fist into its stomach, creating a ripple affect to happen across the wall.

He took a step back as he began breathing heavily, not knowing where this power came from, but wherever it came from, he loved it. He looked upon the creature, its limb body now falling to the ground. It reached out to him, trying desperately to kill its opponent, but all efforts were futile. Ikaru carefully took a step towards its head, lifted his foot up, and placed it upon its head, putting enough force to push its head the floor. He gave off an evil grin as he raised his foot and slammed it into the creatures head, splattering it across the base of the walls, all along the base of his pant leg and the bottom of his shoe.

He looked up just in time to notice a large chunk of cement falling at him, quickly he rolled out of the way. Gasping for air, he pulled himself together and raced down the hallway. He began weaving in and out of falling rubble and large chunks of concrete; he was running as fast as he could. He saw the end and pressed forwards with all his might, alas he made it made it out of the crumbling death trap: he spun around just in time to watch the roof collapse in on itself and fill the entire hallway. Ikaru gave off a sigh of relief as he fell to his knees, breathing heavily.

"Go... god that was unbelievable, where all of that come from? Wait, I don't have time for this, I have to go find Mek`kia,"

He got up and saw a three-way intersection; he closed his eyes and tried to remember the one they had come through when suddenly it hit him, the center one was the exact one. He opened his eyes and raced off down the center hallway, pushing himself to the very edge of a regular person's ability, but yet again, none of them was regular. Unexpectedly, from the shadow of the left darkened hallway stepped out a man draped in a black cloak and a black hood. This person's cloak looked new, almost as if it had just came out of a storage locker, upon closer inspection it was none other then Takani. Yes, it was none other then Takani, Lord Heguta's loyal right-hand man. It seemed that with the success of capturing Meyaku he had finally earned his Lordship.

He raised his arm and held it straight out, centering it with Ikaru's back and within a few seconds there was three loud deafening shots echoing through the hallway, followed be an evil chuckle. Ikaru fell to his knees and began crawling down the hallway; he saw the figure of a body laying across the floor. He recognized it almost immediately, it had to be Mek`kia. He pulled himself along the floor, the pain just building up: he looked back to see a man draped in black, and he began franticly trying to bring out his shotgun. He was fumbling as he began to lose feeling in his hand, but luckily, he was able to grip hard enough to pull it out and slowly rollover.

Suddenly there was two more deafening shots echoing through the hallway, and with a thud, the body of Lord Takani fell to the cold hard floor, blood pouring out of his chest. Ikaru gripped his chest and felt blood begin to pool as he felt the bullet hole caused by the mans pistol. Ikaru rolled back over and pulled himself over to Mekkia's motionless body, he feared the worst when he did not see him move at all. He crept ever so closer to Mekkia, and saw that he was breathing, but very shallowly, Ikaru had to do something, but he knew he did not have the strength to pull himself up to help save his friend. All he could do was utter a lie into Mek`kia's ear. Tears began pooling at the base of Ikaru's eyes, as he looked away, trying to drum up the courage to lie to a friend in their last moments.

He finally sucked back his pride and muttered into Mekkia's ear, the same thing he did to his family, "Everything's gonna be alright... (Cough) We're gonna make it," And with that, Ikaru reached back and grabbed his shotgun. Two hundred yards down the hallway, you could hear a heart-breaking, tear-jerking shotgun shot. It pierced the silent hallway like a hot knife through butter. A whiles away Hyruna collapsed to the floor, gripping her heart, feeling that something bad has happened, she closed her eyes and tried to get rid of the feeling when all of a sudden a vision of Ikaru and Mekkia both laying on the floor... dead, appeared in her head. Tears began flowing down her cheeks as the others came back to ask what was wrong. She just lifted her head up and stared blankly into space, she softly spoke a name before getting up and following the others,

"Mek`kia,"

Chapter Thirteen: Global Annihilation

Hyruna and the others charged on completely unaware of the full extent that Mek`kia and Ikaru have gone through to keep them safe. They were all reaching the edge of their energy; every step was heavier than the last. With Anthony leading them, they were sure to reach the top without any further distractions. As the charged onwards towards the top where Meyaku was being held, the final preparations were being made on the machine that was meant to turn the world into a complete wasteland. Heguta was standing beside Meyaku running his small, slender hand along the side of the containment sphere, the inside beginning to glow a deep navy blue. Heguta had a smug grin come across as the news that the machine was finally ready, his eyes practically lit up as he ran off towards the control deck.

Again, the building began to rumble as chunks began to fall throughout the stairwell, the group dodging the large chunks of falling death. Hyruna coming within inches of coming to a slow, painful death, but narrowly escaping it. They continued towards the top, until finally after what seemed like hours, they reached it, the top. The crumbling got so bad that the stairwell began to fall completely apart and within seconds of leaving it, the entire thing crumbled in on itself, and fell completely away form the entire building itself, leaving a large metal surface, with large pillar beginning to extend from it. The groups stared in awe just before a large metal door came sliding down and locking in place, locking them within the large chamber atop the building. As they turned round they took in all that could be seen, it was a creepy sight, lab equipment spread around, but it was the very center of the room that caught their eye the most.

They began slowly working their way along the side of the room to avoid being caught by armed personal and the scientist's, but to there luck an alarm sounded as the scientist's and armed guards ran to a separate room. The group looked confused, but took this time to run out and try to remove Meyaku from his glass prison. They all began to hit the container in hopes it would break, but it just would not budge. That was when Anthony resorted to drastic measures, and whipped out his standard issue Desert Eagle .50 and just let loose on the container, cracks beginning to spread all around the container itself. He holstered his weapon and slammed a foot into the glass it shattering into thousands of pieces, pieces being sent in many directions. A deep navy bluish mist poured out as Meyaku's limp body began to fall to the side, where there were many sharp points.

Hyruna rushed over and caught him before he was cut up badly; she signaled the others to help her carefully pull him out to safety. When the sound of the gunshots reached the control box Heguta ran over to the window and began yelling out obscenities left and right, banging his fists against the reinforced glass. The sound of his fists reached the ears of the others they began panicking, frantically trying to get Meyaku from his glass prison. Heguta then realized all that he needed had already been taken from Meyaku and was now surging through the container within the machine. He laughed as he reached over and pressed a small blue button, a large siren sound emitting from the alarms within the machine chamber, where Hyruna and the others were. Suddenly there came a loud pre-recorded message across the P.A. System,

"Tee minus 10 minutes until complete global sanitation,"

A worried look came over their faces not knowing what that meant, just knowing it cannot be good in any stretch of the imagination. The voices of his friends pierced Meyaku's ears, causing him to jump up off the ground and onto his two feet. They stared in awe as their friend came back from what seemed like a death most unimaginable. He turned and ran to the storage closet in the corner of the room and tore the door right off, sparks flying everywhere as he reached in and pulled out his clothes. He made short work of putting them on before turning back and running towards the others. He stopped just in time to be in the middle of the group, he asked what was happening, and they explained to him in exact detail as to what was happening. It was, as he feared, Heguta was trying to complete the founder's work, that was the reason he ran after they found him wandering throughout the forest.

"Meyaku, do you remember who we are?" Hyruna asked in a worried tone to which he answered in a serious manner,

"Yeah I do, and I also remember who that worthless bag of garbage up in the box is. That is Lord Kinata Heguta; he wishes to "purify" the world in the founders' sadistic vision,"

Hyruna looked confused for a second then remembered that Meyaku had lost his memory. She looked at him, and blushed wildly,

"D-Does this mean you have your memory back?" She asked inventively.

"Yes, and that's the bad thing, I also remember what the vision is, and what Heguta is planning to do. They plan on wiping out all life on the planet!" He blurted out, as they all gasped.

"B-But how is that possible? Where would they get the power to do such?" Wrench asked in complete disbelief.

"In the blade I had on my hip. Speaking of which, where is it?" He asked wondering if they even knew. They all pointed at the machine, to the glowing port, the neon black glowing port. Meyaku gasped as he ran over and grasped a hold of the blade, losing all memory once again, all except that of what he had learned during the past month with Mek`kia, Ikaru, Hyruna, Wrench and Metoshi, and of Heguta. A blank look came over his face as he looked around wondering where he was, when he looked down and saw the blade that he had grasp of he pulled back as it was ripped from the port it had been inserted into. He looked around frantically until his eyes caught the sight of the man know none other then Kinata Heguta. He let out a long-winded battle cry as he jumped with incredible strength right at the window, busting through it without a single scratch on him.

The others watch with great disbelief as they saw inhuman feats of strength, and agility; Hyruna felt extremely uncomfortable about their situation, almost as if something was wrong, terribly wrong. They watched as the lone Meyaku swung his blade from side to side, trying so desperately to kill the man draped in black. Again, the building shook as if it was alive, but no one but Heguta knew what was actually happening. Large Metal pillars began to extend from the massive building, as the room began to take a different shape all to itself. The top of the building began to split away from the rest of it as the pillars lifted it up. It was turning into one large metal arachnid; taking step into the large, rotting forest. At the top of the pillars where they were still attached to the building, it began to take the shape of a large scarab, as the top of the building itself took the form of a large open stadium, with the northern side missing.

Meyaku jumped at Heguta, taking them both tumbling out the window, away from the mechanized building and were sent plummeting towards the ground, well until Meyaku reached out for the lip of the scarab shaped building as Heguta grabbed his leg, jerking on it as he came to a complete stop. Meyaku tried to pull himself up, but Heguta's weight was keeping him from doing so. He tried to kick him off, but it was all in vein he just would not let go. Heguta began swinging himself with Meyaku's leg towards the large lip of the large transformed building. Meyaku winced in discomfort at the movements being made by Heguta, until finally he felt the pressure release from his leg; he looked down to not see Heguta still there attached to his leg.

He looks over to see him grasping for dear life, struggling to get a complete grip on the edge. Without anything weighing him down anymore, Meyaku was able to pull himself up and walk over to where Heguta was holding on for his very life. He stood there for a few moments pondering whether he should save Heguta or not. He knew if he let him fall he would be no better and with that, he bent down onto one knee and reached out for Heguta to grab a hold of him. Suddenly the countdown reached one and the machine began its programmed assignment, firing out a large black beam from the satellite dish looking thing attached to the front of it. The others gasped as it whizzed by their heads, making them lose their balance and hit the floor. Hyruna fell quite hard and smacked her head off the hard metal floor, being knocked unconscious.

Heguta reached up, took Meyaku's hand, and pulled himself up with the help of him. As Meyaku pulled Heguta up to his feet, turning around and began marching his way to the control box, Heguta reached down and grabbed the blade. He swung it at Meyaku's head; he almost got a clean hit until he felt a bullet rip through his chest. He dropped the blade and touched his now bloody chest. He looked down to see the blood; it was then that he looked up to see an old man dressed in blue farmer johns, a straw hat and brown hiking boots. Heguta looked to the mans hands and saw a rather large Gatling gun, the barrels spinning. The man had a grin on his face as she winked at the man draped in black. He squeezed the trigger as he let loose a volley of hot lead into Heguta, one after another; bullets flew through his body, jerking him to the left and right.

Meyaku spun around just in time to see the farmer pointing the gun straight at Heguta, bullets being sprayed from the many barrels in Heguta's direction. He looked over to see Heguta dropped his blade, and be jerked from left to right with each shot that past through his body. He kept stumbling backwards with each shot, until he reached the edge. He flailed his arms around as he tried to keep himself from falling off his creation, but it was useless there was no stopping the inevitable. Meyaku raced over to the edge and watched as Heguta off the ledge. He flew off the edge and was sent soaring through the air, he just relaxed and let fate take its course; a soft, gentle smile came across his face as he closed his eyes in embrace for impact. Heguta was the only one who actually knew how to shut the machine off, but it is not as if he would do so willingly. Meyaku's heart raced as he panicked, not knowing what to do; he bent down and took in hand the hilt of the blade that was bestowed upon him many moons ago. He stared at it attentively, trying to plan his next move; his eyes like white pearls shining from the intense light being emitted from the large black beam.

He shook his head and snapped back into the reality of the situation at hand, the immense responsibility placed upon him. The weight of the entire planet on his shoulders, the fate of every living survivor across the desolate little rock they call a planet. It was his job to keep thousands of voices from screaming out for help for only to have no one or nothing come to their aid. He looked at the blade he held in his hands and then back at the large beam being emitted from the treacherous machine Heguta had built. He gripped the blades hilt with all his might, closing his eyes as he turned his head to almost throw away a thought, but to all extent, it did not happen. He only knew of one other way to obliterate this thing. However, he does not remember this but if there is a large enough rip in the containment chamber within the machine, the cleansing process will begin, which means it will turn itself into a great fuel-air bomb. He raced towards the hunk of metal and rammed the blade through the feeble exterior, slicing its way through the containment chamber and unexpectently, the fuel line.

The mixture of the two being cut caused a reaction greater than anyone could have ever thought. The other looked on the machine as time seemed to slow around them as an explosion greater than any of them had ever seen went off sending Meyaku flying off the edge of the gigantic contraption created by Secronom. Metoshi ran over to the ledge and looked down, only to see nothing. It was then that the giant mechanical atrocity began to rumble and fall forwards, its legs collapsing in on themselves. The old man ran over and grabbed a hold of bar to brace for impact. Wrench, Anthony and the two children dragged Hyruna into the control box and braced themselves against the rigid partition awaiting demise to be upon them, Metoshi was not far off either, she ran towards the control box only to slip and begin to side down towards the tip of the gigantic mechanical piece of evil. The old man quickly let go of the bar and slid after her, grabbing her just in time, he then reached out for another bar along the ledge and held on for dear life. They all braced themselves for the looming death that circled them, tears escaped from Metoshi's eyes as she saw the ground become closer and close. Abruptly a great vivid pallid glow began to expand from the front of the Great insect designed structure.

Chapter Fourteen: A Never-Ending Story

A large beam appeared flowing through the metal, craving out a large chunk of metal. The sound of screeching could be heard from the within the giant mechanical beast; mechanisms failing, gears grinding to a halt. The smell of burning blood and iron stained the air with its awful presence as fire made its presence be known every second; dark red metal spread everywhere that could be seen. Finally, the building came to the ground a lot softer then anticipated, the group hiding in the control box startled by the fact that they were still alive. It was then that the building came to a complete halt not moving another inch, the legs twitching slightly trying to move the stubborn piece of mechanized metal. The others knew if they didn't get off the structure soon they would must likely die, even the old man picked up on the eerie sounds being made from deep within the building. As soon as the old man had positioned himself properly he let go of the bar, which allowed gravity to take its course on both him and Metoshi.

The groups within the control were getting extremely nervous; the way down for them was covered in sharp grooves and upturned metal sheets, but they knew they would have to get down anyway. The old man and Metoshi were the first to make it down to the ground, but they did hit with a bit of a thud the others stepped over to the entrance to the room and slid down, weaving in and out of obstacles. Lucas, one of the two kids, went down with a partner. Coty went down by himself as Lucas went down with Wrench leaving an unconscious going down in the hands of Anthony. Wrench and Lucas made it down safely, and were cushioned by the hands of Metoshi and the old man. Coty went down second, dodging large spikes that had been pressed through the flooring; he made it down safely as well. It was only when Anthony and Hyruna went down that things went south; Anthony went had tried to go to the left of a large spike sticking out of the metal sheet flooring, but instead went down the right side. He looked ahead and saw a large over hanging piece of sheet metal direct at the same level as his head. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, imagining a world of normality; making his last peaces with whatever god he believed in he embraced himself for the fate that has come before him.

Anthony's head smacked into the large sheet, spraying blood everywhere, leaving a large dent in his skull. The now passed on mid-twenty year began leaning ever so slightly, drifting into pit that once was the holding place of the firing machine, was now engulfed by fire. All of a sudden a shadowy figure jumped out from the forest and grabbed Anthony and Hyruna before both there bodies were encased in a fiery death trap. The figure dropped down from the sky with both of them under his arms, blood dripping from Anthony's head, and Hyruna still knocked unconscious. The figure removed its hood to reveal that it was Meyaku in the flesh and blood. Metoshi ran up and jumped at him, wrapping her arms around him, practically unleashing a flood of tears onto him. Wrench just stood there and had a confused look on her face.

"Hey, how did you survive that fall?" She asked in a questioning tone.

"A few tree branches broke my fall, leaving me with only a few minor cuts and contusions." He replied in a soft tone.

"There ya go again with your fancy lingo," Wrench said in a sarcastic tone.

"Ummm, I think your guy's friend here didn't make it," Meyaku said as he slowly bent down and placed both Hyruna and Anthony upon the ground.

"Oh god no... Anthony!" Both Wrench and Metoshi screamed out as they hopped over to his side, seeing the blood pool around his head.

Meyaku looked around and saw the old man walking away, he ran over to the man and placed a hand upon his shoulder.

"Thank you... I owe you my life. If I may suggest, you should stay with us for awhile, my thanks to you." He smiled and they both walked back over to the group. Wrench had already began digging a hole for Anthony's when Meyaku spoke up.

"It seems that I have gained my memory again, even though I still have the blade in my possession. My memory is still a little fussy though but something I do remember is that my people have always had respect for those who show great skills, and in the ritual for those who had showed such great bravery as this man did, deserves the rebirth burial." The others looked at him in a confused manor. None of them had ever heard of such a thing in their lives.

"Its simple, the Rebirth Burial is a tomb of fire. We build up a few logs and form a log cabin-like structure around the passed ones body and set it aflame." That was something that all of them could understand. They spent the better half of the next hour setting up the ritual for Anthony's body, and at the end standing around the tomb, it blazing away burning his remains into dust and ash. It was then that Hyruna finally awoke from her coma.

"Wha-What happened? Did we win?" She asked softly in a raspy voice.

"Yeah, we won............. " Meyaku said while looking up to the stary sky above. He could not help but shed a tear as he whispered one last addition,

"For now... " Hyruna asked what he said, but he said it was nothing. Just then Wrench returned from being within the forest from trying to find firewood, but only to return with a laughing pair of fools... Mekkia and Ikaru. Hyruna's eyes lit up as she pretty much launched herself at Mekkia, knocking him off of Wrench's shoulder and onto the ground. Letting out her worries she kisses his cheek so many times, wrapping her arms around him pretty much squeezing the air out of him.

"H-Hyruna... P-Please let me b-breathe." She got off of him and sat on her knees.

"Oh Mek`kia, what happened?" Hyruna asked in a heavy hearted tone.

"Well... " It was then that the old man spoke up and budded in on the conversation,

"Well I can answer that little missy. You see I thought these two foolhardy knuckleheads may need some help, they pretty much charged off into certain doom. It wasn't until I found their limp bodies lying on the floor that I knew my old sense's had not failed me. I brought these two out of that long hallway and back out here. I let them rest." Before anyone else could begin talking, the old man continued to drone on,

"And you may be asking yourselves how I the world I got up there on that gigantic city folk contraption. Well its simple, I used to be the head computer techie back when I was younger. I hacked into that locked elevators control panel and got inside." The man gave off an open jawed smile revealing his many missing toothed mouth. The others just stared and laughed, it didn't take the old man long to figure out that they were laughing at his teeth. He just chalked it up to him being a stereotype and laughed it off as well.

"Iraku, there's something buzzing around my head still. That last shot you fired, I thought you had shot me and yourself at the same. If you didn't shoot us... who did you shot?" Mek`kia asked wondering what exactly had happened.

"Well there was this really weird guy that had a black cloak on, he shot me a few times in the back and then I spun around and shot him in the chest... thing is, the bastard didn't stay down. He came back up, but his head had exploded and some weird insect thing came out of his body. I shot it before it killed us." It was that had just been said by Ikaru that had startled Meyaku. His heart began beating heavily as his pupils shrank.

"What exactly happened? What did it look like?" Meyaku began asking so many questions it started to make Ikaru's head spin. Ikaru then spent the next thirty minutes explaining everything.

Meanwhile...

A man draped in black stood within the middle of a forest drenched in blood and rotting flesh. Two hundred yards in front of him rested something that seemed to be a rip in the ground, it was neon black with white edge's. There was a dark black mist was pouring out of it, spreading everywhere. The man wondered over to the hole and looked down, he reached over to his hip and pulled out what seemed to be a small dagger. He lifted it up to his hand and slid it across, bringing with it a deep cut in the flesh. The man squeezed his hand into a fist as blood was drawn out of the cut and formed a dribble off his palm. The man wiped away some dirt below him and began to form weird symbols on the ground with his blood. Each symbol he finished forming, began glowing and sank two inches into the ground. When he finished the last symbol he stepped backwards as it did the same thing. He brought his hands together and spoke in a dead language, inaudible to anything nearby. The ground began to shake as a large claw formed paw reached out of the hole. It pulled out a man no bigger the man draped in the black cloak. The paw formed into that of a mans, with fingers and all.

"Rise... Drake Meta, come forth and obey thy who has summoned you." The man in the black said aloud.

"What is it.... My master?" the being formed like a man said.

"Two miles to the south of this spot stands a building.. I want you to enter this building and go into the bottom half that is under the ground. Unleash and release everything that is in there and kill all mortals that remain. After you have finished that bring me back a file that's title is "Experiment X2" on it. This is of the utmost importance. Now go!!" The man ordered.

"Immediately master," The being said in a deep, dark tone. Its skin became that of grey fur, its eyes became blood shot as its pupils became that of a venomous snakes, a diamond shape. It got on its hands and knees, each hand and foot turning into a rather large paw with a three inch claw on each toe. Its facial structure became that of a wolfs, a long muzzle with long, yellow stained teeth. Its body became that of a wolfs as well. It sprouted ears that looked much like a wolves, and last a tail much like a wolves sprouted from the bottom of its spine. The only otherworldly feature this wolf had was the fact that large black blade like spikes broke free out from under its skin on its back. The being had become a dreaded, demonic Dire Wolf.

"Will that be all master?" said the wolf, even though its body was that of a wolves it was a demonic being, it could speak.

"No............ BRING ME THE HEAD OF MEYAKU KARUYA!!!"

The wolf snarled and ran off southward towards the building its master had described. The man began laughing evilly, his hood falling from off his head, upon closer inspection it was none other then Lord Heguta in the flesh. Though he was missing half of the skin on his face, and it was growing back at an astonishing rate it was not hard to mistake his laugh or face, lack there of.

End of Act one...