[Roll]

Akiko took a quick glance at the roaring spectacle, as more skeletons decided to deter their attentions to him instead. Akiko, who was more than happy for this litle effect to take place, took the opportunity to run past all of the skeletons, and into the town. Running by buildings and patches of weeds, Akiko sped as fast as she could in search of anything, and everything that could be found at all. Yet, no matter where she turned, or how high or low she looked, it was very much lifeless. Akiko was sure that there were many people in the town, and a few skeletons could not have caused so much distress or death as to destroy everyone. Yet, after circling a few streets once, she decided that no one was outside anymore.

Thinking on that, Akiko went up to the nearest house, and placed her hand on the knob and turned. However, this door was locked, and it showed no signs of budging. She ran across the street, and placed her hand on that knob and turned it.
This one was unlocked.
She pulled the door open, and walked inside. Closing the door behind her, Akiko looked at all the furnishings that this house had to offer. There were flower-styled carpets all over the floors, and the shelves and stairs and wooden objects were all made of Mahogony. Yet, there was nothing strange about all of this: nothing seemed to be moved, destroyed, marked, or even harshly used. Akiko tried calling out inside the house for someone to answer her. Her voice, however, soon echoed into nothingness, and she suddenly felt really cold. She moved further into the house, and tried her call again. There was no other noise in the house that she could hear, except for her footsteps and her slowbreathing.
However, that did not mean that there was no other noises.

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"Father, what are you doing?!" asked a small boy. He had very dark brown hair, green eyes, and was a little tan in the skin. He was wearing his pajamas, and was frightened out of his bed by a man with similar features who knocked down the door to his room. The man walked very slowly towards the boy without bothering to answer the question, or make any noises at all. The man came in front of the boy, and raised his arms above his head. Afraid of being hit by his father, the boy ran away like he always did. Suddenly, the boy tripped as the floor shifted upwards very suddenly. Looking back, the boy saw that his father had smashed his bed through the floor, which was now very much broken, yet still sturdy enough to walk on. The boy knew he had to escape somehow: this was not normal at all.

However, a floor below the bedroom, Akiko was breathing heavily. She had just been hit by some wood that fell from above her, and was now just recovering her composure. Standing up again, Akiko took a moment to look over her wounds. Since none of them were too serious, she looked up at the ceiling to see the hole. She walked over to and up the stairs without making much noise: whatever happened, if anything caused that to happen, perhaps it would be best if it did not hear her. She had made it to the top of the stairs, when something ran into her really hard and she fell to her side. Looking back to see what had hit her, she saw a little boy with brown hair. He quickly got up, however, and started running down the stairs while making funny noises in fear of something. Was she scary? She got up, and with a small wince, hopped off the passageway and onto the ground below. She landed just as the boy made it to the last step, and she ran after him as he moved to the door. She had just caught up to and grabbed him, when he had opened the door.

The boy screamed, and Akiko looked forward in confusion. Many people were starting to walk down towards where Udes and Rawk were, and somehow, they did not seem to be behaving normally. They all moved at random paces, and a lot of them turned and made their way towards the house. Akiko took notice that they all bore tools of some sort that were either very sharp, or very heavy. Akiko, in instinct, turned around to head to safety, but stopped when she saw a large man walking down the stairs very slowly. She looked in front of her at the man, and then behind her at the crowd. No matter where she went, there was bound to be danger now. She quickly turned to the boy and crouched down to look him in the eyes.
"Listen, we need to get out of here." said Akiko to the boy. "We need to run to the gates, but I guess we're going to have to go another way, if everyone is here."
"but..." objected the boy. Whatever the problem was, Akiko never heard about it.
"Listen, we really need to go. If we don't, I think we're more then likely to get hurt; so just stay with me, and we'll get out of here, ok?" said Akiko with more seriousness. The boy nodded, and Akiko grabbed his left hand and literally pulled him out the door and into the streets as fast as she could. She headed into the direction opposite of the gate. Whatever was happening, it did not seem like this was getting any better for them at all. Akiko just really hoped, for some odd reason, that Rawk was doing alright...

Meanwhile, on top of another building somewhere far off, a small figure could be seen moving erratically. It swayed and swerved, and even bobbed in the movement of some sort of dance. Whatever they were doing, it did not seem likely they would stop any time soon..



Edited By Roll on June 13 2004 at 21:34