The Cult Of Seven Devils

Chapter 5: The battle has been lost, the war has begun

[8:41 pm June 20, 1989]

Even though I'm hurting I'm still helping him. Sakka doesn't seem to want to talk anymore, not even to me...I feel like Hunter destroyed the only confidence and strength he had and for that. I don't know where he went or where Dahlia is but I hope we'll find them sooner or later. I was surprised to see Sakka acting like a savior, I wondered, what got into him.

Itsuki sits with Sakka on the couch comforting him. Sakka lays his head on Itsuki's chest crying while Ali and Quinn go back and forth on what to do next. "Itsuki..." Sakka says. Itsuki comes to a realization and looks at Sakka. "Do you ever feel like you want to just give up on things even though you tried so hard to fix it but there's always that one person who breaks it again?" he says slowly sobbing. Itsuki looks at him with emotion-filled eyes as if he is feeling the same way. He says nothing but holds him closer. "What are we gonna do staying in this cabin for the whole night? Based on that map Itsuki had, there's bound to be other places besides this." Ali thought while looking out the door at the shining moon gliding onto the lake. "Yeah, but where should we go next, and shouldn't we be looking for Hunter?" Quinn asks. Ali sighs. "Itsuki, what's the closest location here?" he asks. Itsuki takes out the small map from his journal and slowly opens it and searches for the cabin. "It turns out there's a road not too far from here and an Industrial area across from it," he says with excitement. "An industrial area you say? Maybe we can find more parts for the generator there?" Quinn suggests. "Yeah, but wait. Hunter took the only wires we found-." Ali says with an unpleased look. "Right..." Itsuki mumbled, looking down at the map with an upset look. "Well, don't worry we can find more. Right?" Quinn says, looking at Ali. "Yeah, I guess?" Ali questioned, "I'm not sure but there's a high chance that Hunter went that way." "Maybe," Quinn responds. "Should we get going or do we still need a few minutes because a lot just happened...I mean...we just lost Dahlia and Hunter and only God knows where they are. I don't know if Dahlia is dead or where Hunter went but I'm not sure this will end outright." Ali says looking at the mask he found earlier and staring at it deeply. "I think we're fine and we should move on and find Dahlia and Hunter before we fix the watchtower," Itsuki suggested getting up from the couch with the map in hand. He was determined to find his friends. "Honestly, it's the best decision we have right now since we can't just let them die out there and I pray that Dahlia isn't dead," Quinn says. But then Ali realizes something at the moment. "Wait, Sakka did that monster kill her?" Ali asks with an intrigued look. Sakka gets up with a dead look in his eyes. "No...I'm not sure...but it didn't kill her, it just picked her up and walked away. It didn't seem to have any intention of killing her." "Then we're gonna go the way it went," Ali ordered confidently. "Which is where?" Quinn asked with a confused face. "I- Oh- Uh-" Ali says. Sakka gets up and walks slowly to the door stares forward at the moon and points straight in the direction it went in. Itsuki walks over. "Southeast, I see? Well, we should get going," he says. "Yep, come on guys," Ali says walking out the door. While everyone walks out Itsuki follows behind but before leaving the cabin he spots papers on the floor that Hunter held before charging at Sakka. He walks toward it and reads:

I am US,
               I am US,
I am US, I am US,

You are US...Hunter...           The cult is waiting...

REBIRTH,

DEATH,

US.

Itsuki's face is in shock as he reads it and he throws down the papers which whoosh in the cool wind blowing through the cabin. Out of curiosity, he picked them up again but it turned to a normal paper on...bridge worm? Whatever that was. "Itsuki? Are you coming?" Ali says. He stares at the papers. "Uh...yeah coming." He picked up the papers and put them in his journal and ran out of the cabin towards the others. He thought to himself What's the cult and how do they know Hunter? Or maybe I'm just imagining things. No matter what it was Itsuki was gonna get to the bottom of it.