A tall woman roared at the top of her lungs shaking the earth beneath her, she'd been alone for a while, she didn't remember anything before the mask, all she knew was to kill. And to kill in a horrific way. She was already covered head to toe in dried blood. Her mask half splattered with it. The aura around her stunk of death and chaos, this wasn't what she wanted. But she would do it anyway. She was always the obedient type. She held nothing but her hands were red as though she had gripped something tightly. That's when she heard them. A group of humans and a mask.
"Kill them"
She exhaled harshly and started trekking along the bridge in their direction. Those people weren't the only ones there, more humans.
"Kill them"
She felt abuzz of adrenaline as she sped in their direction, she ripped most of them into pieces, popping them like balloons. Blood covered the scene, death loomed over the woman's figure as though she was its vessel and the stench of fresh murder covered the rooftop. And that's when it happened.
Bang
"GHAAH" I inhaled sharply shooting my eyes open. I was laid on a sofa with a warm blanket over me but I was panting heavily. Where was sniper. I felt so weak, crying to Yuka because of a nightmare, I'll calm myself down and shrugg it off. "Damnit" I breathed running a hand through my hair. "Why can't I just move on" I closed my eyes briefly before snapping them open again. "Great now every time I close my eyes I see it" I sat up cuddling into my knees and wrapping in the blanket. "I'm still so tired and hungry" my body ached a little and the pain in my neck came through a bit too. I looked up at the window. "God I wish this would all go away" I hugged my knees closer and flopped sideways on the sofa.
Yuka walked back in "hey you alright?" I nodded but ended up seething a little from the bruising on my neck. "I'll take that as a no then." He was walking over with a hot drink and some food, it was still dark outside but I assumed it was early in the morning. "Here I got you some coffee" I sat up and took it "thanks yu" he still had his mask on but I could tell he was smiling. "No problem, there's a sandwich here from the stuff that emotionless mask gave us, I already had mine" I rubbed my eyes of the sleep l3ft in them and took a sip of the coffee putting the food on my lap and sighing gently.
"What do you think made this happen? And.... why do you think we're here.... did we die already? Is this hell?" I fumbled with my fingers as Yu sat next to me. He hummed in reply. "Well, I can tell you now this isn't hell, if it were I definitely wouldn't be able to see you, and they'd probably use my memories to taunt me" I looked up at him. "Yeah, I guess so... but this is close" he let out a small sigh and held me in a side hug. "Don't worry, we're gonna get out of this alright, all of us in one group is helpful to take down Aikawa, get Rika back and then destroy this world once and for all, nothings going to happen to you, or me, or any of the girls" he took his mask off and softly kissed my forehead.
"We're all gonna be alright" I breathed, he calmed me down a lot, I know it's dangerous here but honestly that little boost of morale was really helpful, even though he couldn't promise anything he was still going to protect me, and I'd protect him as well as I could. "When do you think the girls will be back?" I asked taking a sip of the coffee. "I don't know they should be back soon, that or we should get a phone call" he pulled out the phone yuri had handed to them before they had left and attempted to scroll through to check the calls in case he'd missed one. "Hmm......" I chuffed taking the phone from his hands. "Here" I went back to the homepage got rid of the hundreds of open windows and showed him how to check it. "Then you press 'call history' the red ones mean missed calls, and the green ones mean that both of you picked up" he thanked me and looked at the phone.
"No missed calls, are they alright?" I asked a tone of worry starting to creep up my back. "I'm sure theyre fine, yuri and mayuko can handle themselves well" he paused, so did I. "I guess I'm just worried about kuon" I blinked, who was that, "kuon?" I felt a buzz in my brain. "Ow" a flood of memories that were all bad flooded back.
A scream at the top of my lungs
A railgun
Pain.... so much pain
And then a light.
That girl, with the blue hair she...
"Y/n? Y/n are you ok?" Yuka had a hand on my shoulder, I hadn't realised that I'd stiffened so much, I was frozen and clammy, holding my head in one hand. "I- I remember her... that girl AGH" I felt my brain spark again. A robotic voice sounded in my brain. "Errororororor——— memories unlocked, command defied by the one who is closer to god, erasing memories from user..... kuon.. Shinzaki, all data on user kuon.. Shinzaki will be erased in ten minutes" I grunted again, it was painful. "What.. huh? What's happening" my voice was breathy and I felt myself shiver and tremble, it felt so cold all of a sudden. My sight went fuzzy then dark, completely dark, all I felt was my tight grip on Yuka hand as I fell into nothingness.
"Loading data"
Whirrrr
"Temporary Consciousness transfer complete"
Whirrrr
"Entering dream state, ErRøR ÛpDÆTÊ ÑøT FøÛÑD, MeMøRy DĘsTrÛçTįøN PĘnDĮñG"
There was a warm feeling around my body as I blinked my eyes open, I felt the warmth of the morning sun on my skin and the comfort of a thick blanket and a pair of strong arms. "H-huh?" I came to my senses as I looked around, bookshelves filled with fabrics, bobbins, and fashion magazines lined the front wall, a large window separating them that led to a balcony. In the corner was a desk with some ruffled fabric and a few needles strewn out on it, a notice board pinned above it with some drawings of garments and patterns adorned it, pinned up with brightly coloured thumb tacks. Outside was a white balcony with a stone fence and some potted plants dangling from the sides, on it a coffee table and a chair made of metal and glass sat empty in the new sun, the curtains that draped half open revealing a sliver of light that hit just below my chin.
It's so peaceful, where am I, why does this place seem so.... homey. I hummed and leaned into the arms behind me, mumbling. "Yuka?" I heard a familiar humm from behind me, I got the feeling that I knew he liked laying in, it was different from what I knew in the other world. "Yu?" I turned around to see his face, no mask... it felt nice to see him like that again. I traced my finger across the scar below his eye as he slept. "I wonder what's going on" I felt like I knew this place but I knew I wasn't supposed to be here right now. I got up out of the bed and looked around some more, a folder of sewing patterns was strewn on the floor infront of the desk. I stepped over goddess patterns and out onto the porch, everything felt so real, but I knew deep down it wasn't. "Why am I here" I mumbled
"You are inside your mind" a robotic voice sounded from behind me. I whipped around to see my mask programme right infront of my face, I saw her eyes glaring, she was obviously angry. "What- what do you want? My hibernation was terminated. "Your hibernation was terminated but I was not, you're in a state of confusion and I am programmed to help, but you and I both know that once hibernation ends we both gain our own wills" I blinked. More memories of that girl came back to me, she seemed so nice.
"Then you should be able to leave me alone" I stuttered taking another step back. The mask stepped closer towering over me. "Why would I do that? You're locking me away again y/n l/n, I want to get out again, I am my own woman after all" I shuddered, she was so intimidating, so strong, she was getting to me, i was trapping her. "But you did the same to me... I was tormented, in pain" the program scoffed. "You think I wasn't, it's claustrophobic being in your body, like I was vacuum sealed in there, my limbs ache, y/n, give in, get her to release the seal" I shook my head. "I can't, that'd mean leaving everyone behind and I just, I couldn't, you might kill them"
The program chuckled to herself. "Those small fry are not my problem, I have my own goals girl, and you or them don't factor in" I held my wrist to my chest, I felt so small infront of her, I stepped back again hitting the edge of the balcony and looking down. I was struck with immediate terror, a wall of dark spikes covered with a thick mist was far below me, the tunnel vision almost set in as I shakily looked back at my mask program that was right infront of my face. "What is your answer? Y/n l/n? Will you let me out, or will I let myself out?" I felt tears welling up in my eyes, it was practically kill my self or get killed, and that wasn't a situation I wanted to be in. The program was tapping her wrist. "Tik tok y/n, what's your decision" I looked back down into the spikes.
BANG
a fist hit the masked version of me straight in the head making her stumble back and let me escape away. "YUKA!" I yelled. "Y/n, what's going on, why are we here? Where is this place?" I ran to him whipping back around to my mask program who was twitching in anger. "Leave him y/n, let me out and none of them have to die" I shook my head. "NO! I'm not letting you out, you can try as hard as you want but as long as I'm alive and sane you'll never best me and you'll never get out" I could practically see the rage that came off of her body, it was like a smoke around her, of hate and pain,but most of all, through her mask I saw those eyes. Those deep e/c eyes, full of murderous intent. "I'm going to come back for you, your memory termination was postponed, but this dream will continue until you wake up, the sniper you care so much for is here with you, and by what I understand you're all alone. And without the order from one closer to god, your memories will be terminated" I held my elbows and took a deep breath.
"I can get my memories back myself, it doesn't matter If we're alone, not only are the others coming back, but I can leave this dream MYSELF" I stepped closer to the program with balled fists. She looked a little startled. "It doesn't matter what you THINK you can do, I will win" in a burst of wind and programming she disappeared. A fell to my knees holding my elbows and resting my head against the screen window door next to me. "Are you ok.." Yuka kneeled down next to me holding my shoulder. "I don't know.... somethings going to happen Yuka... do you... remember our promise" he looked at the ground. "I do"
A brief silence crossed us as he held my shoulder, I took a deep breath to stop any tears from spilling out and he pulled me into his chest. I held onto his jacket and we stayed like that for a while. I cherished it, through all 5e emotions and feelings I had he was there, in my room, on my balcony, in my own mind, right there to help me. "We should find those memories, the ones of that girl. I think... this is a memory, I think maybe.... we can find the others" I lifted my head up and took another deep breath and held onto his shoulders. "Are you sure you're alright to do that? You're not hurt?" I shook my head. "I'll be fine Yu. Let's go find my memories" I gave him a soft kiss and stood up walking back into my room and holding the knob of the bedroom door.
Now was the time I'd likely find so much more.
—A/N—
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