Junko

damn it's been two years already?

Nimue stood up and slammed her hand on the desk out of sudden quick temper and annoyance. She was going to speak up, claiming that this was all a load of shit before the student next to her simply dashed out the classroom. Within a few minutes, screams began to echo in the halls. She raised an eyebrow before looking back at Jules standing in the front of the classroom. She felt her heart stop in her chest. What the hell was that?! Her eyes went to the now empty desk next to her. Did that boy....? . Cesare faintly jolted in his chair from the sudden piecing screams and shut his his book. He still kept the neutral facial expression but his eyebrow twitched slightly in worry. Ryo's attention has been fully caught as well, the redhead nearly shaking in his seat. "T-T-This isn't some sort of prank now, is it?" he asked, his voice quivering. He didn't want to know what exactly happened to the guy he was just talking to a few minute ago but from the screaming, he figured that he wouldn't be seeing him ever again. Either way, Ryo stayed put in his seat, fearing that something unfortunate were to happen to him if he just moved even an inch. "Ooooh, if I do volunteer, do I get paid for this?" Eyes of shock went to the girl sitting in the front, the same girl that was just silent and drawing not too long ago. Her legs were kicked back on top of the desk and her hand was raised, as if she was back in elementary school to ask a question. Her other hand was was fiddling with her white hair. The girl furrowed her eyebrows, getting impatient from not getting a response back. "Well!?" She pressed, sound all too harsh and demanding. Nimue's eyes twitched before her finger went to point right at the girl. "D-Do you not understand the situation we're in right now, Rosemar-" A hand was held to her face, as if to shut the girl up. "Shush. First of all honey it's Mary. I don't know what that other bastard told you but I hate going by that full name...." Mary removed her feet off the desk and stood up, her fingers still messing with her locks of hair. "Besides, as far as I heard, people are dying, there's some curse. Cliche shit if you ask me." Nimue's hand grabbed Mary's collar threateningly and pulled her a bit close. A threatening tone entered her voice. "The name's Nimue and don't just treat this all like a firetrucking game. Who the hell do you think you are, pulling the silent chick act a minute ago." Mary stared at her, unamused before glancing away. "Oh, so she hasn't told you yet..." "..?" Mary smirked as she shook off Nimue's grip from her. "I don't feel like explaining our little secret, so I'll let Rose tell you when she comes back, if she's willing to of course." "...huh." "She has a multiple personality disorder. She's basically two people in one body." "Bingo champ. Look whose a smart cookie~" she cheered towards Alphonse. "But enough wasting your time about me. Some kid just died out there, right? I wonder if he wrote a will of some sort. I mean if he has a nice laptop, I'd be willing to snatch that up." She said a bit too cheerfully. Cesare stared at her blankly before turning to Jules. "I would like to volunteer to help get rid of this curse." "A-are you serious?!" Nimue exclaimed and Cesare simply looked at her before slightly shrugging. "Sure, why not? If it will satisfy everyone and get past this curse nonsense, then I don't see the big deal." Ryo was still shaking in his seat, tears formulating at the corner of his eyes. Goddammit, why. Why did this have to happen to me? I did nothing wrong to deserve this. I...I-just don't know what to do.. He dragged his hands through his hair before looking around the students at the students that were here. Someone was here.....is really a ghost? But who would that be? And how will I know? Questions were simply racking through his brain. Just how exactly they were going to raise this curse was a good question but Ryo still couldn;t get over the fact that someone he just met simply died a minute later.

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Junpei felt a small noise in the room and opened his eyes. His body was feeling a whole lot better now but not good enough to go back into combat or for him to do anything crazy like usual. He sat up and saw that Takushi has entered the room. He blinked at hearing the good news about Azumi and his eyes lit up as a grin came across his face. "Really!!?" he said as he quickly began to climb out of bed but then fell on his face, hitting the old floor a bit roughly. He moaned as he sat there in pain, feeling his face throbbing. "I...can't get up....just drag me there..." he said, his voice a bit muffled. Meanwhile Elliott hummed as he sat up in his bed. Cringing a bit in pain as he grabbed his side. He could still feel and remember the impact of the punch in the center of his stomach. Still, he'd never felt such a surge of power from somebody like that before. In a way, it was a bit scary but he enjoyed that little brawl. For once, he lost. "...Is that so?" he said as he took the doughnut from Veronica. "Heh, Zeru must be pissed at me for that loss." He placed his free hand on her hooded head. "But it's alright because you and Oz will crush your opponents today." Elliott then at the doughnut whole. He was a bit grateful that Veronica went out of her way to bring him junk food, something he simply loved to consume. The hospital food he's been fed was not doing him any good and only left him hungry. Sometimes he cursed his large appetite. Meanwhile Usami stirred where she was and slowly opened her eyes. She was in...the air? She lifted her head up to see that Kaede was sitting behind her. They were both on a lion and were heading straight for a particular building. The hospital. Usami looked down to see that a familiar group was heading towards the hospital. When she recognized who they were, she felt herself shouting at them. Claude stopped walking, Sonya bumping into him from behind, and looked up. "...Usami?" Sonya was about to snap at him when she stopped at his question and looked up. From here, the curly brown hair was distinctive in the sky. "That has to be her but....is she riding a lion?" "I believe that's Kaede up there with her as well." Usami waved down at them before the lion continued forward and landed on the roof of the hospital. Usami slid off, feeling a bit dizzy. I don't remember finding Kaede...did we have to cut it short? She turned around to Kaede as he got off of the lion. "Thanks for the ride and training. I won't fail!" And with that, she turn and went to the door that lead inside. She really didn't feel ready for this battle. __ When the group with Claude and Usami reached to Azumi's room, Sonya pushed open he door, the first to walk inside. "Azumi! I'm so happy that our little champ is okay~!" While everyone came inside to greet Azumi, Alphonse couldn't help but look over at Usami. "So how did your training go?" Usami slightly glanced away. "Fine....but what about you? You're cut up all over." "Well you know how aggressive Sonya can get when it comes to fighting. Everything went fine." His eyes went to the gash would that was still on Sonya's thigh, tied up with some white bandages. She seemed to be ignoring it now, which was a bit of a relief.

Usami's illusion tiger, Tsubasa was moving quickly through the fortress, avoiding any thorns on the ground and any other obstacles. Usami pulled another thorn out of her back before cringing, making that the last one. There were seven of them in total. Although they were only nothing but a mere illusion, the pain felt too real. She tossed it behind her before feeling Tsubasa come to a rough stop. The girl's body jerked forward and her head bumped behind the tiger's before looking up. A giant shell acting as a wall. It was too familiar. The same one he used against Claude back at the abandoned church. She blinked as she racked her mind, thinking of how to break through that thing. I don't know what creature I can create that can bust that thing down....but.. her eyes began to grow pale and hallow. Usami grew quiet as she focused on the barrier separating her from the rest of the fort that lead to Kaede. The turtle shell began to shift backwards, a small dark hole forming in the center, as if it was burning from the inside out. Usami tapped Tsubasa and slowly they approached the shell as the hole began to grow bigger. Usami's eyes widened and the turtle shell began the hole caught on fire, before the entire shell was engulfed with flames. The jumbles of vines around it began to crack and burn. !!! тнαт'ѕ ιт. נυѕт ℓєт gσ. ∂єѕσтяу ιт тσ яєα¢н уσυя gσαℓ Tsubasa took off at full speed again, leaping through the hole before running down the corridor. Usami's eyes were still pale, the space around her and the tiger shifting. The vines that made the wall began to appear as if they were melting and cracking as they passed by, a black space appearing through the cracks. She got carried away. Meanwhile Claude was feeling a bit trigger happy today, well at least in hyper mode he was. His fingers were pounding at the trigger, both guns, and aiming at Reborn. Reborn was constantly having to move as he avoided being hit, shooting back with his own pistol. Claude stopped and dashed forward, Reborn doing the same. Their guns clashed, a shot being released from each one. Claude quickly turned to shoot with his other gun but Reborn already had his pistol pointed at the boy's head. Claude's pointed at his face. The flame began to fade from Claude's forehead and his eyes returned to its gray color. "I guess we can stop here for today. You've gotten a lot better." Claude simply nodded and panted a bit with fatigue before hearing his phone go off. "Hm?" He slipped it out of his pocket to see that Takushi was calling him. He pressed the answer button and held the phone up to his ear but didn't get a chance to say hello. "That's great! Although I don't know if I can get Usami. She won't come out of the training room. We'll see you there." Claude hung up and looked over to Reborn, who hear everything, and exited the training room to get Alphonse and Sonya. Meanwhile "Heh, you're pretty tough, scarf boy aren't ya?" Sonya commented as she skidded backwards, stopping herself with her feet. Her arms and clothes were covered in scratches. The goggles sitting on her head had a crack in one of the lenses. Alphonse simply said nothing as he stopped for a breath, blades still clenches in each hand. He, too, was also scratched up. A graze wound from another gun shot was evident on his cheek. He rushed at her again, swinging one of his blades down to strike. Sonya quickly moved out of the way and dug her gun into the side of his head. A smirk came to her face before a sharp pain entered her thigh. She cringed before looking down to see that Alphonse dug one of his blades into her thigh. The gun was removed from his head and she reached down to pull the blade out. It wasn't deep to be serious but it still hurt her like hell. "Guh- I guess we can stop for today." Alphonse got out of his stance and placed his blade back into its holster. "Done already? And I though you were one to play rough..." "Heh, smartass..." she said as she tossed his blade to him with his back turned. Alphonse simply caught it before thrusting off the blood that was on it. The training room opened and Claude and Reborn was standing at the entrance. Claude notified the two of them on Azumi's condition and the four of them left to go to the elevator that lead to ground level. "Wait, what about Usami?" "She won't come out of the room. Must be training hard in there. She'll catch up with us when she's ready."

Usami took a step back as the creatures that took form of women started to surround her. There were a bunch of them from all side. Usami uncoiled her whip from her side and gripped it hard as her eyes quickly darted left to right. One of the creatures that were closest to her, that happened to be in front of her, the girl cracked her whip towards it. The whip managed to leave a huge diagonal gash through the creature's chest diagonally, nearly slicing it in half. The creature she attack fell over to the ground, unable to function. Usami was going to grin to herself before she felt a rush of sharp pain hit from behind. She let out a yelp as fell down to her knees. Thorns were dug into her back and blood ran down her back and her arms. Feeling her teeth clench, Usami quickly stood up and swung her whip, sweeping about half of the creatures that were around her. She managed to take some of them out but there was still too many to handle. She quickly moved out the way as a handful of the creatures rushed for her, trying to strike her with their thorns. This...this is impossible. I can't take all of them out by myself... Illusions. Illusions. Use them. Usami drew out a sigh before snapping her fingers. The familiar white and purple stripped tiger appeared next to her, appearing more threatening and bigger than it was the last time she created it. Weakly, she climbed on its back before the tiger let out a threatening roar. It took off at a dash, ripping through the amount of creatures that were surrounding them with its teeth and climbed up one of the stairs before busting out through the doors. Usami waved her hands and comets shot out towards the creatures. As they were going, Usami felt a hard throb to her head and she clutched her forehead. The tiger then slowed down but still kept traveling. She needed to remember what he said and kept her abilities in check. Meanwhile Lukas sighed before looking over at Raiden. "Are you kidding me? You literally fear that little girl. I'd say we have nothing to worry about." He sat back in his chair with a bit of a satisfied grin. "Besides, the little twerp that she's up against looks helpless. Same for the scarf fellow." Meanwhile A finger flinched and then a hand. Elliott slowly opened one eye before doing the same with the other. He wasn't dead. A feeling of relief washed over him. But he did lose that match and he'll never know how Zeru reacted to that. It probably wasn't good. His eyes stayed on the ceiling, watching the rays of sunlight from the window scatter across it. His body still felt heavily numb. Just about moving to sit up would cause him some pain, so he stayed still. The male heard the door open and he looked over with his eyes to see a familiar hooded figure come in. A small smile came across his face. He was still able to talk but his voice came out hoarse.. "H-ow's it going......Vivi...?"

A bit startled, Ryo looked up to see that someone was standing in front of his desk. A boy with glasses. Ryo couldn't help but stare at him for a second. A nervous one. Not the kind of people that usually approached him, or that he tried to talk to for that matter. The conversations always ended up being awkward. Still, Ryo was going to make this work somehow. A welcoming grin came to his face. "Hi. I'm Ryo" He simply said. A straight forward greeting. That shouldn't spook the kid that much, right? Ryo took his hand out of his hand and drummed his fingers against the desk lightly, finding something for them to do. "I'm doing great but you should really relax, man. I don't bite." Nimue sighed as she fiddled with the end of her manila colored scarf. She looked over to see that Rosemary had her head down in her crossed arms on the table. She was.....sleeping? Already? Class didn't even start yet. Perhaps she was only that in order not to get bothered or some crap like that. She looked over to the other side to see that Cesare was still reading and two guys were chitchating. But she didn't want to bother with anyone else in the next two rows. She didn't really feel like getting up anyways. She just wanted class to start so she can get the hell out of there as soon as possible.

Usami's eyes widened as roots and vines began to spread across the floor and around the walls, as if Kaede's illusions were changing the entire setting completely. The fortress that formed in front of her seemed to stretch out so high up that she had to bend her neck as far as she can just to see most of it from where she was standing. At the sound of Kaede's voice echoing throughout the fortress that he just made, her fingers made their way to the handle of her whip as she cautiously stepped through the opening that was made for her. When she reached inside, Usami looked around to see that the area she walked into was nothing but thick vines jumbled together to form walls. There were roots sticking out from those vines and some flowers here and there. He's...very skilled at this....but just how am I suppose to make it out of here? Usami's eyebrows furrowed in frustration as she started forward, watching her step to avoid thorns. Sure, this was all an illusion but she could feel the pain if she made a wrong move. ___ Sonya crossed her arms as she leaned back against the wall. She has a look of annoyance. "What is with everyone wanting me as their sparring partner....So you want me to train you for tonight, correct?" Alphonse, who happen to be the one asking her, simply nodded. A second later, a hard ringing sound went off in Alphonse's ear. He clutched his ears to feel that one of them started bleeding at the very tip. He looked up to see that Sonya has a pistol in her hand, her finger appeared to have already pulled the trigger. "Sonya, w-" "Too slow~" she said with a grin as she fired again. This time, he deflected the shot with one of his blades he pulled out from its holster that was sitting on his hip. With her free hand, Sonya drew out a knife, a survival knife to be exact. "If you're gonna battle against Riviello, you need to be fast than that, mentally and physically." Alphonse frowned as the two of them dashed at each other. Meanwhile Danet looked over to Veronica before looking at Oz. "Oh really?" he muttered before taking another bite out of a granola bar and glanced away. "And just so you know, I didn't give two shits about that guy. It's just....his kindness." Lukas, who was just half asleep at the table from the quietness, lifted his head up and looked over at Danet. "It makes me sick..." Lukas narrowed his eyebrows before looking over at Veronica and Oz. "The battles aren't until later. What do you two- well Veronica, what do you plan to do? Knowing that lazy bastard, he's just gonna sleep some more."

"W-wait! Dammit why the hell do you walk so fast?!" Nimue could be hear almost shout throughout the courtyard trying to catch up to someone. And that someone happened to be a black haired male reading as he walked. How he could keep such a pace while his eyes were scanning the paging in the small book he was holding, that was in a mystery of itself. Either way, Nimue finally reached him and tried to catch her breath as she came to a walking pace to match his. The boy didn't say anything to her though, even appeared that he was ignoring her, but she knew that he wasn't. Nimue let out an irritated sigh. "..Ugh. What's with this bullshit about some haunted room 139? Dealing with school is already enough of a headache." "It's rumored that a girl that died there years ago has come back to haunt that certain classroom. Seems pretty fake in my opinion. Once you die, your soul is suppose to pass onto the afterlife. There's nothing left for her on earth." "Huh? Don't try to sound so intellectual on a topic like that. Besides, how would you know? It's not like you've died before." "It's mere common sense." "Hmph, whatever. I'm not afraid of no stupid rumor like that." Once the reached the room, Nimue pushed open the door to see that a few people were already in the classroom. The two of them looked over at the seating chart that were sitting on the teacher's desk and sat at their assigned seats. "Hello there!" At the sound of the somewhat loud voice, Cesare glanced up from his book and looked over to see that the male next to him was greeting him. The male raised his eyebrows before the same heart warming grin came back to his face. "Hi! It's nice to meetcha. I'm Ryo." Cesare blinked before looking back over to his book. "Cesare." "Cesare, huh? Kinda like Cesar but with that extra letter. How unique. I'm not usually one to be fascinated by name bu-" "Shut up. You're disturbing me." The smile on Ryo face shrunk into a wry smile. He dragged his fingers through his crimson hair. "S-sorry about that....still it's nice to meet you." Cesare didn't say anything, or bothered to look into the male's direction for that matter. Ryo looked over to see that the person sitting next to him was not even here yet but the two girls sitting at the end of his row were. He sighed as he leaned his chin into his hand and twiddled his pencil with the other. (No need to be down. He's just having a shitty day...right?) The small tip of the mechanical pencil snapped and Rose paused as she stared at the small image she produced on her paper. It was a very detailed sketch of a a pair of eyes. She set the pencil down next to the small sketchbook and continued to stare at it. She had no idea why she decided to draw that. She just felt like it. "Woooahhhhh! That's a very pretty drawing! You're very good at this aren't you??" Rose was nearly startled out of her chair as she looked up to see that someone was hovering over her. Nimue. She looked away from the girl. "....Thank you." the girl said at a slight mutter. Nimue cocked her head to the side, unaware that she scared the other in the first place. "You're one hell of a shy girl, aren't you? What's your name." Did she really want to use her actual name or just go by the one she preferred. Besides, her name was attached to her real name. "It's Rosemary." She went along with her given name after all. She didn't have to know about Mary. Nobody needed to, until she came out from the back of her mind. Nimue grinned as she backed away and sat back down in her seat, but still faced Rose. "Like the plant, right? How cute." Rose simply nodded. Nimue was already intimidating to her and she just met her not even 5 minutes ago. This was going to be a long day.

Name: Rosemary Nerthuz Gender: Female Appearance: Bio: Despite her name showing somewhat of a kind nature to her image at first glance, Rose is more of a reserved person by nature. She really just grew up that way due to her past of living under the shadow of her successful family members, mostly composed of doctors and lawyers. It really hurts her mentally when people expect her to come out like them. She has more of an artistic side, very skilled in drawing, painting and sculpting but time after time, she's been told that that won't find her a job anywhere when she gets out of college. Nowadays, she mostly just keeps to herself, not bothering with anybody else. She doesn't really turn away people who tries to make an attempt to speak to her but she's not the one that breaks the ice when it comes to conversations. She's seen with a small sketchbook with her most of the time, draws whatever comes into mind. Rose doesn't let anybody touch it though, along with peaceful sketches, there are dark and depressing drawing in there that could be found as creepy to some. Rosemary has multiple personality disorder and has an alter ego. This side of her is referred to as Mary. Mary only shows herself when Rose becomes too stressed to manage or will show herself whenever she feels like it. Mary is a more darker side of Rose, displaying a bit of a sadistic and cheerful nature. She quick to snap on anybody as well. It's still not known how Rosemary obtained this multiple personality disorder but it's been evident for a few months now. Name: Ryo Áinle Gender: Male Appearance: Bio: Ryo is a chill and easy going person. His childhood, along with the rest of his life, has mostly been average. His academic performance in school: average. His social life and relationship with family: average. His life was nothing but average. Despite showing his good side all of the time to everybody, he sometimes wonder if he'll grow up to be anything above average. He wasn't really one to complain since he was an only child and avoided being a spoiled brat to his parents, but Ryo tries to better himself on his own. Right now, he's trying to fit better when it comes to interacting with his peers, being more welcoming to anyone and everyone since he doesn't really want to excel any further in his studies. Too much stress. So far, he hasn't been shut down yet and people seem to like his friendly aura. 139

As Kaede faded away in her field of vision, a long yawn escaped her lips. She rubbed her eyes and glanced at the clock again. "....Sleep.." She began shuffling down the hallway and began to make her way out of the hospital and towards the cruise boat. A good forty tiring minutes later, creaked open the door to see that the room was dark, only the dim amount of lighting from the moon's ray of light only brightened the room, but just a little bit. Usami looked over to the empty bed and realized that she had it all to herself tonight. Azumi was going to be spending the night in the hospital. With a quiet sigh, Usami walked over to the bed, dropping her sweater and bag that were sitting in her arms. She then collapsed into the soft sheets, pillows and mattress with a soft thud, not bothering to change out of her dirty clothing. She was too tired to be worrying about that now. Within a minute, the girl was sound asleep. ______ The whole area was crumbling into bits. The ground slowly losing its stability and turning into waves. The girl felt herself floating off of the ground. Gravity seemed to have disappeared. Taking a few minutes to regain her balance, she looked up to see a faceless girl floating a few feet away from her. A hooded, faceless girl. From under the hood, a single tear ran down her face. Usami couldn't help but try to reach out to her out of sympathy. When the hooded girl recognized this, she immediately looked up, red eyes, filled with pain and hatred, staring straight at her. The ground began to split open, magma erupting from it. Fire appeared all around the two of them. The scenery became hell itself. Frightened by all of this, Usami turned to try to make a desperate escape out of all of this. What she came to face with was.....her. Another Usami floating in front of her, only this one had the face of a madman. A pair of hands quickly grasped for her throat. Before she could do anything, everything started to blur out Usami shot up and her hands went for her throat. She regained control of her breathing before looking around. It was morning. She was awake. She blinked before looking over to see that Sonya has already went ahead after her. With her body still quivering, she moved off of the bed and went to go shower and change. A while later, Usami emerged out of the room with a pink blouse on, a black short skirt, white leggings, and black sneakers. Taking one last breath, she began to walk down to where they usually met up for breakfast, although it's been a while since they had a meet up like this. Meanwhile Usami walked through the door to see that everyone has already started eating. The group was much smaller due to some of them being in the hospital. Usami went to go take a seat next to Sonya, eyes averted downwards. Claude looked up from eating, as if sensing something was wrong, and looked over to Usami. "Are you okay? You look pale." Sonya looked over to Usami and raised an eyebrow. "Claude is right. Did you have a nightmare last night or something?" The girl nodded her head. "Something like that....but I'm fine now." "Usami, don't worry yourself too much. You'll be able to beat your opponent tonight." Reborn said as he looked up. Usami smiled before she went to eating a box of donuts that were siting on the table, specifically for her. Alphonse asked why she was eating sweets so early in the morning, but he just received that 'stare' from her and just went back to eating. When she was done, she stood up from the table, feeling a bit more happy again. "I'm off to go training. Alphonse you should join me. You're battle is today, isn't it." "I rather not. Illusions aren't really my thing to deal with. I might just train with somebody here." Usami slgihtly shrugged her shoulder and left straight to the training room by herself.

A small gulp went through Usami's throat. And to think that her battle would have just been a walk in the park. Lose...my sanity? For the most part, Usami was a sane person. If pushing her powers meant losing that, would it really be worth it? Some questions started filling her head now. She was really curious how this would all play out tomorrow. "Um....Kaede." She started, snapping out of her thoughts. "Do you think we could do a bit more training tomorrow, before nighttime comes? I make sure that I'm prepared to face her." Her facial expression went a bit serious, despite the tired look in her eyes. Meanwhile With Colonello and Hiro taking their leave, Junpei fell back into his bed with a yawn. "Too much happened today. I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." The blonde turned onto his side, pulling the covers over his head, before closing his eyes. Alphonse finally got up from his chair and let out a slight yawn. "Perhaps we should all get some sleep. It's almost 3 in the morning." He began to walk out, giving them a slight wave before leaving the room. Everyone began to file out after. It really was too much of an eventful night. They finally won a match and their opponents were going to be just as hard tomorrow night. The best thing for them to do is to go get some rest. ,

"E-eh Boss, yo-" but he was already out the door, probably ignored the redhead too. Lukas drew out a sigh before looking over to Zeru's axe that was still dung deep into the ground. Not wanting to stay here any longer, especially with Veronica in her current state, Lukas made his way over to the door and pulled Oz out of the wall. "I'm going to sleep. It's too late for all of this. Later." And with that he left. Danet didn't bother to stop him though. He was feeling a bit tired himself. The male looked over to Veronica and chose out his words carefully in his head before speaking. "You may already know this but you and Oz need to do good tomorrow. Elliott will get better so don't worry yourself too much." He wasn't really saying this for her sake, but his own. An angered Veronica can lead to bad things for the rest of the group. It was best to at least try and calm her before she went crazy again. Meanwhile "That'd be great but....shouldn't we do this party thing after we win?" Claude said, his voice becoming softer as he got closer to the end of his sentence. This was their first win out of the four battles that they've had. The only way they could win this was if Claude successfully defeated Zeru along with Alphonse and Usami winning the next two battles. Sonya smiled as she placed a hand on his head and ruffled his short brown hair. "Now that's the spirit. Having a little optimism won't kill anybody, right?" "Oh! And I can probably get back at that bastard for knocking me out so badly. He better hope not to cross paths with me again." "Hopefully, Azumi will recover in time to attend this party if you all are serious about throwing one." Reborn said as he tipped his hat back slightly. While the rest of them continued to talk. Something was scurrying from the corner of her eye. Her head quickly turned to see that a small figure left the room. Another small illusion? Is he calling me again? Usami stood up and walked towards the door. Claude was the first to notice her leaving and turned his attention to her. "Hey, Usami. Where are you going?" "I'm tired so I'm heading back to the suite on the boat to go rest. Goodnight." She quickly said without turning around. Before he could response, Usami quickly dashed into the hall and looked around. The small illusion was gone and he was nowhere in sight. I know that was him. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

Name: Cesare Abasalo Gender: male Appearance: Bio: Cesare is a level minded individual with an Italian background in his family although he may not look like it much at first glance. It's been shown that he's quite intelligent ever since early age. Before he came to Centra High, he's been recognized as the 'Silent Genius' through out elementary and middle school. His most excelled subject would have to be Literature. His title meant exactly what it said: he was loner by choice despite how loved he was by everyone. He had certain morals when it came to schooling and his peers. He didn't associate himself with many people if he didn't have to. They were nothing but a hindrance. Of course, there were people that tried to get close to him, whether it was to seek academic aid or to form a relationship with him. However, Cesare turned them all away, and in a rather blunt and cruel way, not taking their feelings into consideration. The only thing he wasn't necessarily good at was social interaction. Currently, he's not necessarily hated, but he's not as recognized as much as he used to be. Probably everyone got the memo, expect for a certain individual that he's come to pretty much not mind now. Name: Nimue Lloyd Gender: female Appearance: Bio: Nimue is a confident individual who can come off as a complete assertive jerk to just about anyone if she feels like it. The female isn't afraid to speak her mind or attack someone physically if she pleases. Although she can come off as aggressive, she does have a heart and will become more friendly depending on the relationship she forms with someone. Due to her personality, she has gotten into trouble with people in the past, more specifically middle school, part of the reason being that she wasn't exactly born in America. Her and her family are from Wales and moved to America when she was about ten, so her English wasn't perfect, but she knew enough. People began targeting her since she'd always end up confronting the the wrong people, which ended up in her family moving again to Colorado. After a few months of depression from the bullying, Nimue was back to normal but decided to stay under the radar for a while. She had a smaller crowd of friends but they weren't good enough as company. That's when Nimue came across Cesare one day. The friendly side of her got her to go talk to him as he was reading under a tree one day but she was quickly dismissed, Cesare saying that she was bothering him and needed to leave. Quickly offended, she cursed him out before storming off, but the male seemed to dismiss her. As much as Nimue claimed that she hated him, for some reason, she kept coming back to try and converse with the male. At first, Cesare kept pushing her away and she just kept cursing him out but soon he stopped asking her to leave and wouldn't say anything at all, probably realizing that he couldn't get rid of her. Now, they pretty much have a neutral relationship. Cesare was still silent and kept on reading whatever book he had that day while Nimue would run her mouth about whatever was on her mind. Only half of the time would he stop reading and respond, sometimes saying something insightful. 139

Luckily enough, Sonya didn't have to do much to get them out of there safety. Once they reached the hospital, the nurses were quick to take Azumi away. All Sonya and Colonello could do really was stare at he was taken away on a gurney, still all dazed. Perhaps she didn't even know where she was. The only thing the two of them could really do now was to go meet up with the others in Junpei's room. Once they got there, the two of them raised their eyebrows, surprised that Junpei was back to his normal self already. Maybe Alphonse talked something into him that fixed him up. They'll never know for sure. Sonya planted her hands on her hips, a satisfied grin came to her face as she waled up to Junpei, just finishing a conversation with Claude. "O? So you're finally back to your old self. Man what a relief." She leaned down and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Now tell me, how did it feel, getting stuck by all that lightning?" Junpei simply frowned. "What are you trying to do? Taunt me? Hmph, your efforts are nothing but disappointing." he said as he huffed rather sarcastically. "...Um. I don't mean to interrupt but....this is out first win we've gotten. Shouldn't we celebrate?" Usami said, still a bit tired. "But Azumi's not even here. It's all thanks to her." "Not to mention that we're not out of the woods yet. Alphonse and Usami. You're the last ones to go before the boss fight comes." The both of them nodded. Now that they've won once now, this boosted up their confidence immensely. Meanwhile Riviello sat in a hospital room with Elliott lying in bed, still out cold. There was a breather mask on his face and an IV needle in his hand. Bandages were wrapped around his head and smaller bandages were on parts of his face and rest of his body. The room was silent, except for the small running sound of the machine helping the blonde male with his breathing. Danet and Lukas were worn out from carrying Elliott all the way over here. Sure, he wasn't heavy but the fact that Vernonica kept barking at them to move faster just wore them out eventually. She may be the smallest one in the group, but she was terrifying at times. Lukas looked up finally, tired of sitting here in silence. "...Now what? We can't just sit here and stare at him for the rest of the night."

The televison was brought up closer to the front of Junpei's bed and the two of them kept their eyes glued on the screen. As Alphonse and Junpei both watched as Azumi was taking one hell of a beating from Elliott and then burned her arm on one of the rings of the arena, Junpei was literally screaming his head off at the poor monitor, as if his words would actually help her in her current situation. Alphonse was just as anxious as the blonde was but he shook Junpei roughly from the shoulders a few times, telling the male to calm down, before they continued watching. Junpei slapped his hands away, anger starting to rise. "How the hell can I calm down?! Azumi is-" "I know, but it's 2 AM in the morning and we're inside of a hospital. We'll get kicked out of you don't shut up." There was a faint noise coming from the television and the two of them brought their attention back to it. There were three Azumis on the screen now, all coming at Elliott before the one in the middle landed what seemed to be the final blow. Everything was shaking before the camera broadcasting all of this shut off and the monitor went static. The two of them stared at the screen, facial expressions blank, before Alphonse reached for the remote controller and shut of the TV. The both didn't say anything before a wry grin came across Junpei's face. "I think that counts s a win for us then, huh?" Meanwhile T-Three of her!? Elliott quickly side stepped the two that went straight for him, avoiding their attacks but was completely obvious of the last one bothering to come at him. He raised his knee up, try to strike the pinkette in the stomach, assuming that that was the real one, and their attacks collided. The impact from her attack nearly fractured his knee if he didn't pull back fast enough. Her fist dug right into his stomach. Elliott was literally knocked off of his feet, coughing up saliva. The circus arena started to rumble from the form and quickly, one by one, lights began to go out. I guess..this is it for me... the male thought as his body was shot out of the ring. Heh, but I must say...she was a fun opponent... Elliott then blacked out as he crashed into the seating area that was closest to the arena grounds. He didn't crash into anybody since both groups were sitting farther up. With that, everything went dark, the sounds of metal still crashing to the ground from the ceiling could still be heard echoing throughout the arena Meanwhile A small light went on, a bright flashlight. It was from the two Cerevello women. They usually didn't know much emotions but their faces were in disbelief that a mere kid like Azumi managed to beat her opponent and destroy the entire arena. "..Uh...Erm....A-Azumi Nagito is our winner for the Sun Guardian match tonight. We shall continue tonight with the cloud and mist guardian battles tomorrow night..." Still in disbelief, the other Cerevello woman walked over to Elliott, stepping over all of the debris, before sliding the half Vongola ring off of his finger with ease before walking back to Azumi and sliding it onto her finger, completing the ring gently without trying to hurt her seeing her current condition. The two of the nodded before walking off the scene. Claude, along with everybody else, were all wide eyed in disbelief. Usami, just waking up, opened her eyes, only to get nearly crushed by one of the overhead lights that were on the ceiling as it crashed next to her. She let out a small yelp in shock as she just about hopped out of her chair. "...Why is it dark in here....?" she asked, becoming completely alert now as she looked over to the arena to see that Elliott was nowhere in sight and Azumi just standing there in the middle of all the debris, a small light shinning on her,separating her from the rest of the darkness that was around her. "Well don't just stand there! Colonello, come on help me so we can get her out of here." Sonya's voice sounded distant. She was just sitting behind them a minute ago. Apparently, while they were staring in awe, she was already making her way down to help the pinkette out. The fact that she was still standing was a bit of a shock. "Shouldn't we go help her out as well?" Claude ask before he felt a tug on his arm. "No, the building is abut to collapse any minute now. We need to get out of here. Sonya and Colonello can take care of her. We'll meet them back at the hospital." It was probably best not to argue and just listen. He was his home tutor after all. Claude grabbed Usami and Takushi as they followed Reborn out as quickly as possible Meanwhile Riviello was probably in more shock than Claude group. The five of them rushed their way down the stairs of the seating area in the arena. They usually weren't as much worried about each other but that blow that Elliott took could have possibly caused the worse case scenario. Hell, even Oz was wide awake and alert now. Raiden guided the way with one of his lightning rods, green lightning flashing to light them ip, creating a path for them to see through all of the darkness. Lukas and Danet looked concern and who knew how Veronica was handling all of this. Out of all of them, Elliott was the closest to her. "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. This is not good. Where the hell is he dammit?!" "Hey you damn hypocrite, weren't you going on about how to were hoping for him to lose?" "This is not the time for you to be sassing me. Besides, how was I to know that the pink brat would pull a stunt like that? I'll be surprised if he even made it out of that alive." As they kept running down, Lukas leaned into to whisper to Danet, glancing at Veronica who was running right next to Raiden. "Besides, who knows how she'll react once we find him." Radien stopped moving, which caused everybody else that was following behind to come to a sudden halt. He gestured over to a jumble of smashed debris, as if something came in hard contact with them. There they found Elliott's body. He looked broken, fresh red liquid, blood, seeping out from his head, covering his forehead, Some was coming out of his mouth as well. His bright blonde hair was now soiled with debris, blood and dirt and his glasses were nowhere in sight. They were probably knocked off his face from that impact. However, luckily, he was still breathing, just faintly.

Claude, modest as ever, quickly waved his hands. "N-no no Takushi it's fine. Really." Although that would really count him as lying since his efforts to make Claude cooler was working. "Colonello, you're a big boy. Deal with it." Sonya said as she kicked her feet up on the hair in front of her, which happens to be Usami's seat, but of course the girl wasn't bothered by it since she was still sleeping. "Hopefully, Azumi ends this soon." Reborn muttered as he pulled down on his neck tie with a finger in annoyance. ___ "Wooooooo. Show 'em whose boss Azumi!" Even after being severely injured and slowly recovering, the blonde was still as loud as ever. Alphonse really didn't seem to mind, or at least now anyways. He would yell at him for it later. For now, he was a bit relieved to not see him in a comatose state. In fact, he never want to see someone close to him like that ever. The painful past would just resurface and he couldn't stand to be reminded of that again. "Azumi might actually have a shot at beating him." Junpei snickered. "Well of course! If she's able to knock me out then she's just about crazy strong!" "...But just about anybody can knock you out in a single blow. I've done it myself before." "Hey smartass, that's the past, got it? Besides.." He jabbed a thumb to his chest. "I'm a renewed man now. Just watch. I'll be ready to take on that other lightning jerk when the time comes." Meanwhile Just as Elliott raised his foot up to strike again, he did not expect the pinkette to attack so soon. As her foot made contact with the side of his face, the male felt his neck slightly snap back from the impact and he was sent staggering backwards, barely able to keep his footing. Elliott managed to jerk his head back in place, the rights of his glasses slightly cracked. The heat was starting to get to him now as the rays got stronger. His vision started shifting a bit but he quickly shook his head to regain focus. Sweat was dripping down the sides of his face now and across his body. He just stood there for a moment, the side of his face still throbbing, before he slowly lifted up two hands, taking another stance yet again. s̶u̸f̶f̶e̵r̴ Was the only thought going through his head. With a quick step, Elliott kicked off the floor and literally went dashing towards the other, ignoring the intensity of the atmosphere as best as he could. A string of hard punches were thrown before he took a hard swing of the leg coming straight for her with the back of his foot, where the harder part is. Throughout all of this, Elliott did not utter even a taunt but kept one expession plastered onto his face: the look of a predator determined to kill its prey. He was really focused of eliminating Azumi before he passed out from the heat. Meanwhile "Could Elliott be resorting to drastic measures already?" Danet said, eyebrows raised in shock. Both his ears buds were out and he seemed to be much more focused on the battle now. Lukas glanced over to him. "What do you mean?" "Don't tell me you're not the least bit suspicious as well. How often have you ever seen that idiot so focused before? If that girl is really giving him that much of a hard time, who knows what will happen." "Oh? And if he actually loses?" Lukas smirked and looked over to Veronica, who seemed a bit unedge due to Elliotts sudden change in behavoir. "Oi? You hear that? Your cocky fatass may not make it out of this one and you two might have to get in the arena against the remaining two." Danet frowned as he looked over to him. "You actually want him to lose this match?" "Tch. Does it matter? I'd say that he has it worse out there in the heat like that. We can take one loss. It doesn't make a difference either way. Oz and Veronica will still dominate their asses." A dark grin grew across Lukas's face. "Besides. I would love to see boss having a fun time ripping his ass apart after this if he doesn't win."

Of course. More crap happening around here. As if she couldn't choose a worse place to travel to. The young adult has already gotten nagged at from a few people earlier today, claiming that someone like herself shouldn't be wandering the streets aimlessly and should find a job or go back to school. She couldn't contain her hot temper and ended up paralyzing them within seconds and quickly fled the scene before anyone can catch on. No skin off her back really. They were pretty much asking for it. As Rikka walked down the sidewalk, appearing a bit out of place in her Chinese style outfit, she watched as police cars zipped down the road, bystanders questions what the hell was going on. She was a bit curious as well. From where she was standing, she could see that all the police cars were heading to a school that as nearby here. Is there a crime going on nearby? she pondered although it's not like she would waste her time and energy to help anybody else anyways. In the end, everybody was the same in her eyes: a threat.

Feeling the tense heat himself, Elliott slipped off his shirt to reveal his bare chest. He slid up his glasses onto the bridge of his nose before taking a stance. When the Cerevello woman commenced the battle, he stood there as Azumi immediately came at him. (Is she seriously pulling a basic attack like this?) His eyes followed her fists and moved his body accordingly to avoid getting directly hit. Elliott stopped moving, stood his ground and caught her fist with one hand before giving her a friendly smile. "How can you start a battle without greeting your opponent? Isn't that a bit rude?" he said casually as his grip on her fist began tighten. "Lucky for you, I'm a forgiving person. My name's Elliott. Nice to meet ya." His hand immediately moved away from hers and swung his foot upward, hitting the girl straight in the jaw. He then quickly moved his other foot and kicked her straight in the stomach, sending her flying. Elliott brought his foot down and adjusted his glasses again, the strong light making it hard to see. "But let's be quick about this aright before I get a heat stroke. Either you forfeit." His grin became bigger as sweat started coming down his face slowly. "Or I'll end you life~" Meanwhile Each Cerevello women lead each group to a waiting area to watch the fight, which was in the audience section of the arena. "...Guhh...it's so hot in here.." Sonya muttered as she reached down for the edge of her shirt when Claude immedately grabbed her waist. "Claude, what the hell are you doing?" "Don't you think about taking off your clothes here..!" "..Hm?" It just dawned on her that she had a bad habit of stripping down into her undergarments when the weather wasn't too her liking; and she was usually do it anywhere. Sonya shook Claude off her before crossing her arms. "Fine but get off me. You're all sweaty. It's gross." Claude moved to sit up when he noticed that Usami fell dead asleep in the chair next to him, her sweater still on her. There were some beads of sweat present on her forehead. "Usami...Usami?!?" "Calm down. She just fell asleep, that's all." Reborn said, his coat already off. Claude gave him a confused look. "But it's hot." "Well apparently that doesn't matter to her. Look, she's sleeping peacefully." Claude simply frowned before moving closer to Usami and inching her sweater off of her body, revealing a small blouse she's been wearing under it. "That should help at least." "HOLY SHIT THAT BASTARD JUST PULLED A FAST ONE"! Sonya's outburst nearly had Claude jumping out of his seat. "What do you mean?" "Azumi. She just took two hard blows." Meanwhile "If that's so then I call dibs on storm boy." Lukas said as he sat there in the heat with all of his clothes still on. "I have unfinished business with him." "My opponent isn't worth any of my time. I don't plan on dealing with him." Danet muttered as he looked over to Oz. "Haven't you got enough sleep already?" He said, a bit annoyed that he would attempt to sleep in this sort of environment in the first place. Seeing Elliott counterattack, Lukas raised an eyebrow. "Huh? The girl didn't see that coming?" He glanced away. "And to think I thought she had a chance to be his equal.."

Alphonse watched as everyone filed out of the door. On the small night stand, there was a remote control for the television sitting there. Perhaps he could watch the match if they're broadcasting it. The male grabbed the remote and let it sit in his hand but didn't bother to turn the TV on just yet. "Junpei." Hearing this, Junpei pushed himself to sit up, snapping out of his spaciness, although, he looked very exhausted. "Hmm?" "Quit sulking already. You're not dead, are you? So quit acting like you are." That came out rather rough and blunt but he continued anyways. "You lost a fight. So what? Get over it and keep moving forward." Alphonse shifted the remote in his hands. "As the lightning guardian...you're suppose to act as a rod for the family. You can't do that while you're like this." Junpei stayed silent for a moment. He was rendered speechless. "Heh.." A toothy smug came to his face. "Are you downing me or something? I just needed....some time to compose myself. But rest assure Junpei is b-" He held on to his head in pain. There was still a headache lingering around. Well, he was most back to normal. "...So the other's left to watch Azumi fight. I really hope she wins." Alphonse simply sighed. "...I know. I do too." Claude quickly waved his hand as he stood straight up. "N-no..no it's fine. Really.." he sad between breaths although Usami looked a bit annoyed next to him. The two quickened their pace to catch up behind the others as they walked back into the building, and just on time too. Elliott looked up from where he was sitting. An almost sadistic grin came across his face came across his face as he saw Claude's group walk in particularly Azumi. His expression immediately went to cheerfulness as he stood up. "Welcome, welcome☆~!" Lukas, standing nearby and appeared mostly healed, got annoyed by Elliott's good mood. "Will you shut it already? We just got here and you're already annoying me." "What's wrong with a little confident in his success?" "We beat them three times already. He can be dead on the floor and he'd still win." He retorted as he looked away. Sonya raised an eyebrow at Riviello before throwing an arm around Azumi's shoulder. "You got this in the bag, 'kay? Be sure to really knock them out!" Everyone avoided mentioning the fact that if they lost this fight, they lost completely, although Azummi probably knew this fact all too well. Hopefully this won't interfere with her performance tonight.

Junpei heard the sound of the door slam open. He only knew one person that would do that. His hand moved to his face to wipe his eyes but Azumi was too fast for him. At her question, he slightly turned his head away. "I'm fine. It's...it's nothing." This was too weird for him. To act like this. very rarely would the blonde break down into this state. Alphonse looked up at Azumi before his eyes went to Junpei. (Did his loss finally get to him?) His eyes went to the door as he saw Claude and the other walk in after her. "A-Azumi, you can't go around slamming doors he-" Something felt off to him. Everything in the room was silent, including Azumi, which was abnormal for her. His eyes went to he bed before it shifted to Alphonse, who simply shook his head. "....It seems that he's at least awake now." Sonya sighed as she leaned against the wall of the room, close to a dark corner. Reborn looked past the rest of them to see that Junpei was coming to the realization of the battle. He adjusted his hat as he spoke. "Azumi shouldn't you probably give him some space?" Usami and Hiro were the last ones to walk inside. Being a bit shorter than Hiro, Usami peeked her head from behind him to see what was going on. The atmosphere seemed heavy, which caused her to hold herself back from saying anything. Claude walked up to Azumi and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Reborn's right....we should leave him alone." Through all of this, Junpei said nothing. Although he was awake, those words kept echoing through his head, haunting him. His eyes also went empty. "Hey....Azumi." he finally managed utter out, his voice still dry from not speaking for so long. ".....Be sure not to lose tonight.." Nobody told him about the outcome of Hiro's match and he almost forgot about it but he didn't want the group to suffer another loss. Claude raised his eyebrows at this. "O-of course! Azumi's one of the toughest out of all of us." "Speaking of the battle tonight, look at the time. You have ten minutes left to make it there." "What? You're not coming wit us to support her?" Alphonse glanced away from Sonya. "...No but I will be rooting for her of course." Sonya moved off of the wall and walked towards the door. "Of course. Have fun trying to fix up Junpei. Everybody else, let's get moving." She stepped past Hiro and Usami and walked out the door. Reborn was next to follow out after her. He stopped besides Hiro, a hand placed on the male's shoulder. "Someone who just got eaten by a mechnical shark shouldn't be moving around so much. Go back and get more rest." With that, he left as well. Usami tugged on his hospital gown, trying to get him to leave. "Yeah, you need to stay in bed before you injure yourself or something." "Ten minutes...?! Azumi we need to get going."

Usami's eyes softened a bit but she was still angry with him. "Oh yeah? Well...you just got lucky, that's all." she said as she crossed her arms and glanced away. She was still relieved to see that he made it out of there but a bit sad that they suffered another loss. Her eyes went to the clock sitting on the wall across from them. Thirty minutes left. Their hour was almost up for Azumi's fight to begin. (Hopefully she's ready to take on her opponent tonight..) Meanwhile Everything was white and blank. How long has it been since he's been in this state, it was hard to say. Was this how death felt. Was he even dead? Just then, everything started to be engulfed into thick darkness. There was nothing that he could do. Through all this madness, there was a faint sound of crying in the background. A small girl crying. "Rikka...?" There was no response. Just more crying in agony. But it wasn't just her voice. His friends, Claude and the rest of them except they weren't wailing. "You costed us that battle." "Stop trying to show off like you're worth something." "You're useless." Phrases such as these repeated themselves. As if they all joined into a chorus of despair. It all hard to listen to. The blonde clamped his ears shut with his hands and squeezed his eyes shut. Why did this have to happen to him. Was it karma or something? He just wanted all of this to be over. All the voices stopped suddenly and spoke in unison. "̸J̵u̸s̴t̶ ̸g̵o̵ ̴b̴a̶c̴k̷ ̵t̶o̸ ̴w̷h̶e̶r̵e̷ ̵y̸o̷u̶ ̵c̷a̴me̷ ̸f̴r̴o̸m̷,̷ ̸f̷a̶i̵l̴u̶r̴e̷.̵"̸ There was a sudden flash and... Crimsons eyes immediately shot open. The male felt his chest tighten, as if he couldn't breathe anymore. Beads of sweat trickled down his forehead, where a bandage was wrapped around. His eyes took in his surroundings. A hospital room. His eyes drifted to the side, feeling the presence of somebody here and saw that it was Alphonse, half asleep. He was going to say something but him shifting in his bed a bit woke the other up. Alphonse blinked as he saw Junpei awake. There was a slight glimmer of relief in his eyes before he regained his cool and slid down his scarf from his mouth. "Glad to see that you're still with the living." Junpei, still caught off guard by the weird dream he had, drew out a breath. "Tch. You'd thought that I'd die that easily?" Junpei felt an absence at his hand and lifted it up to see that the ring was gone. Something inside him sorta snapped. A tear formulated and rolled down his bandaged cheek. "I...really am a failure...."

Usami semi puffed out her cheeks. "I'm going to go check up on Junpei as well." She said as she turned around and scurried to catch up with Takushi and Alphonse, who seemed to covered a lot of distance from the group in a short amount of time. Claude waved goodbye to them before turning to Azumi and the others. "Those coordinates on the paper, we should head over to it now." he said as he walked past them and gestured for them to follow. For some reason, he seemed a bit eager to get there, but the brunette probably wants to get this whole ordeal done and over with so he can join up with the others at the hospital. __ After a few heated arguments of where to go, they seemed to have finally made it. Sonya took the paper from Azumi's hands and stared at the message on the paper before looking up at where they were standing before. A modernized version of a circus. The group stepped inside to see that there was a huge arena but it was in the style a circus mixed with a boxing ring, white lights shining brightly onto the arena grounds. The scenery looked a bit breath taking overall with the light effects in the background. Sonya gave a light whistle as she looked around. "Perhaps they picked a too....upbeat place to have this battle." "What are you talking about? It certainly beats the last ones." Claude was too distracted the the scenery as he looked around in awe. "Are you kidding?! This place looks amazing!" "Well that's mafia world for ya." __ By the time Usami jogged through the automatic doors and into the lobby, she was out of breath. After finally getting her breathing back to normal, she looked up to see that neither Alphonse or Takushi was in sight. Perhaps they made it back to their rooms that they were heading to. Tugging her small bag that was slumped behind her back, Usami started for the elevator when someone from the front desk saw her and gestured for her to come over to them. A bit uneasy about this, she slowly approached the female at the desk. She wasted no time to get what she needed to say out there. "Usami Inoue, correct?" she simply nodded, a curious look still plastered on her face. "Someone walked in earlier and told me to leave a message for you. Apparently a friend of yours just entered the hospital after suffering an attack from...an animal." (Hiro?) The female handed the girl the key for the room he was staying in. Snapping out of her thoughts, Usami quickly nodded. "Y-yeah. Thank you." Glancing down at the key, she made her way to the elevator. A few minutes of riding the elevator and wandering up and down the halls to find the room, Usami slid the card into the slot, opening the door, and stepped inside. When she got inside, sh could definitely see Hiro on the bed, but she was mroe relieved to see that he was still a whole. Usami breathed a sigh of relief as she walk up besides him. "Hiro... I'm glad that you're okay.." she trailed off for a moment, starting to get a bit angry. "But..what the heck did you do that for?! You could have died!" ___ There was a small creak of the door as Alphonse pushed it open and stepped inside. There was mostly dead silence in the room. He looked over to the hospital bed to see that Junpei was still asleep. Alphonse blinked for a second as he went to go sit down at a hair next to the bed. The dim lighting in the room from the lamp that was on by the bed made the atmosphere more depressing. After a few minutes, he looked up at the machine to see that they were still staggering up and down. That was good. He wasn't dead, or not even close to dead anymore. So why the hell isn't he waking up?

Danet frowned. "Of course I don't. The fact that he was stupid to do such a thing still bothers me though." "Oh? Trying to understand the mind of an idiot?" "What are you talking about? I still don't understand you yet." "...Just shut up and follow the directions the pink bastard gave you to get to the next arena." Danet looked down to see that a slip of paper was sitting in one of his jacket pockets. One of the Cerevello women must have slipped it inside when he wasn't looking. Elliott slung an arm around each of their shoulders as they started walking out. "Yay! More pointless bonding." "Shut up." "Hehe... but if for some reason I lose this round..." his tone completely changed. "I'm going to have to take matters into my own hands." "What the hell do you mean by that?" Lukas asked, eyebrows raised. "I'll tell you when the time comes." Meanwhile Reborn shrugged as he handed the paper to Azumi. "You all have an hour to kill so any destination is fine by me." He looked over to Alphonse. "Besides, don't you want to see how Junpei's doing?" Alphonse didn't say anything. "Yeah! We should probably go check up on him. Or a few of us can go while the rest of us accompany Azumi to the arena." Usami looked over to Azumi. "If...that's okay with you of course." Sonya then groaned. "Fifty minutes let people. Stop wasting time and pick a place to go." "....I'll see you guys later then." Alphonse said as he began to walk off in the direction to the hospital.

Elliott glanced down at Veronica and grinned. "Hmph. It'll be child's play. Besides you won't have to worry about battling yourself. It's a good thing. Saves any accidental deaths you may end up causing." Lukas stood up from where he was as saw Danet waiting for them as he stood at the entrance of the seating area for Riviello. His hoodie was back over his head, he was almost soaking wet from the battle and he seemed mostly composed now but there was a slight hint that he was still shook up from what happened. The fact that Hiro got eaten by that thing and saved Danet's butt doing so was all too strange for him to comprehend. "Just hurry up so we can get out of here." he called out to the others, not wanting to hang out in the arena any longer. Meanwhile "That's the spirit kid. But don't need to try and hurt yourself thinking too hard, alright? You still have a few minutes to compose yourself before your turn is up." "You in high spirits considering our current situation." "Oh yeah, well I'm not that high spirited right now, just to let you know.." "Speaking of which, how are we going to get Hiro out of that thing?" Claude said, lifting his head up and turning over to Sonya and Reborn. He seemed to have calmed down after Usami spent a few minutes comforting him even though she still appeared to be a bit down still. Reborn slightly shook his head as a response. "I don't know but those two from Cerevello should be trying to go and retrieve him for us. He still has the ring on him after all." Alphonse then stood up. "Then shouldn't we get going to go and find them. Besides, Azumi's battle is going to be soon. We need to know where it will be."