When the lights go out (Read Description!!!)

"Why won't I wake up?"

"I'll be okay without food, I'm not hungry, and sleep is also a good way to get stamina... Isn't it?" Marley stuttered. Zac poked him and gave him a look, that was all it took for Marley to go over to the table. After 10 minutes, Lunar had given Marley and Tao omelettes and started to clean up. Leon was looking at a map of the school and Zac was searching through some supplies they found at the start of this situation.

"So, why do we need stamina for today?" Marley asked. Zac responded, saying that they were going to escape before the murderer and mastermind killed them. Marley nodded and continued to eat.

"You both ought to hurry, we should be leaving soon," Leon said, packing some things into a backpack.

"Has anyone seen Hiro this morning?" Lucy asked. The room fell silent, and everyone stopped what they were doing. Nobody had seen Hiro all morning. Had the worst really happened, was he dead? If he was, there was a chance that Lucy could have been killed too if she went with him to dispose of the bodies.

"T-there's a chance he's still asleep, right?" Marley stuttered

"I hate to say this, but he would have woken up by now. The only thing we can assume is that he's dead," Leon mumbled.

"So, are we going now?" Tao asked, half asleep. Leon just nodded and everyone got to their feet.

"So how's this sound?" Lunar started, "I found some walkie talkies so we can keep in touch and let anyone know if we have found an exit," after she finished speaking she pulled out some walkie talkies, there were enough for all of them. One by one, everyone selected a walkie talkie and spilt up into groups. Lunar and Lucy stuck together, Marley and Zac did and Leon and Tao stuck together. They all went their separate ways.

"Come on Leon! Have you already forgotten about the time limit?" Tao called out, but Leon stood still. Tao started to get worried, was he planning to sacrifice himself again?

"Tao, it's best we go our separate ways, we'll cover more ground that way," Leon said after a while. Tao's heart dropped. It was too much of a risk. There was a chance Leon wouldn't make it out. If he didn't, Tao would pretty much be alone. Leon was his best friend, right? They had been for a while before... that incident.

"Look, you may not like the idea, but... I promise I'll make it out. I've got the map I've got all the supplies I need, and if you have found an exit and I haven't found one, I'll use the exit you found, okay?" Leon explained. Tao still wasn't sure. He didn't want to risk it, but there was no changing his mind. It seemed like Leon had made his decision.

"Alright, but you'd better make it out of here," Tao said. Leon gave Tao a somewhat comforting smile.

"Farewell Tao, if I don't make it out, which is a small chance, then I don't want you to remember me as the demon forced to walk on Earth. I want you to remember me as a friend. Someone who would have stood by your side if they made it out," and with that, Leon started to run. Tao tried to call out, but he could only mouth the words:

"I never thought of you as that, you were always a kind person at heart,"

* * *

It took a while for him to find it and he was out of breath, but Tao found an exit that he could get through. It was a window and near it was a fire extinguisher. He took out his walkie talkie and let Leon know. No response. That was a bit odd, Leon would have heard it. He tried again, this time yelling it. Still no response. Tao thought that maybe he was on his way already and got the fire extinguisher.

One, two, three, four, FIVE!

Once Tao rammed the fire extinguisher against the window five times, the window smashed. It wasn't too far of a drop, just 10 feet, so Tao jumped out and... almost sprained his ankle. Tao gave Leon an update and also gave Lunar, Lucy, Marley and Zac the update too.

It had been five minutes.

Ten minutes

Marley and Zac were the only people who arrived. Tao couldn't stop pacing back and forth. He wanted Leon to make it out alive, he wanted to know that Leon was safe, he wanted Leon to keep his promise.

"I have to go in," Tao muttered after a while.

"Wait, what?" Zac exclaimed "Are you an idiot? There's barely any time left before the bomb goes off. Do you have a death wish?"

"No, I don't, but I want to make sure that Leon is ok," Tao said, then he went to go back into the school... However, at that moment the bomb went off, and the school burst into flames.

Tao was knocked back by the explosion, and there was a ringing in his ears. He wasn't able to comprehend what had just happened, it was only when he opened his eyes that... he realised...

Leon was gone. Leon was dead.

Marley didn't feel any better than Tao did. Marley had lost his sister.

Lunar was gone. Lunar was dead.

Marley stayed still and looked at the ground, Zac, however, walked over to Tao. Tao tried to run over to the building, but Zac stopped him from doing so and he felt horrible once Tao started to scream in agony.

Tao couldn't form words to yell, all he could do was scream to cope with the pain he felt. Then he screamed out something that neither Zac nor Marley could understand. It was in Japanese.

"レオン！なぜ約束を守らなかったのですか？どうして？なぜあなたは私を離れなければならなかったのですか？"

All Zac and Marley could do, was take him away. They had to go home, there was nothing else they could do for the souls that were lost.

However, on the opposite side of the building, two people exited through a window.

"So what now?" One of them said, their robotic voice almost hushed.

"We wait. We can't eliminate the others in a boring way. Maybe we should have a battle. But the teams will be uneven. Four against two isn't fair. I say we find two more," The other said.

"So... we have to find two more, then we can do something like this again. Will we win?"

"We can't be certain, but I suppose we will have to try our best. Come on, the police will be here soon," And with that, the master mind and the murderer ran away