Chapter 5 : God won't save the queen

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Akeno and the others are quickly packing things into a large vehicle. They are in the middle of a flat plain, a wide open area with just wild nature. As they pack, a feeling of dread and panic is filling Akeno as she hear what sounds like a mix between windchimes and a music box, coupled with a hollow, childlike giggle. She screams at everyone with her to just abandon what was left and leave immediately. Everyone goes into the truck and Kiba, driving, speed away, the tires screeching loudly. Akeno open the window and lean across it, ready to finally see the thing that had been plaguing her. There, in the middle of the road, is the one who crawls.

Staring at her as they drove away, unharmed, and smiling.

It eyes encompass about a fourth of its face and are always unnaturally wide open, and it wears a permanent, perfect toothy smile in the same unnatural way. It never blinked or stopped smiling. Its lower body is missing, so it crawls around by dragging itself around on its hands. His skin was black asif it had been severely burned.

At leaves a trail of blood as it crawls around and no one knew if it was some kind of maimed person kept alive by some sort of spell or if it was just a zombie. However, Akeno knew that its only purpose was to kill her. And it produces that horrible sounds that goes louder and louder as it comes closer to her. That music box sound and those child-like giggles.

The next place they set up was Akeno's childhood home, in the middle of nowhere. They checked perimeters, put up barbed wire and gates, and reinforced the sides of the house with steel plating and hired two body gards. No one left the house, out of fear of that thing.

That night, she tried to secretly watch through the window. As she peered, there it was again, staring straight at her, giggling like a child again. She ran back inside and went to bed in a restless sleep. The next morning, she groggily went downstairs.

Eyes still blurry, she notices the backdoor is wide open. She knew, at this moment, that everyone was dead. She then heard a deafening silence except for the chimes and giggles behind her.

Akeno woke up screaming.

After taking some minutes to catch her breath and recover from her nightmare, she got dressed and finally came out of the tent to take her breakfast.

After taking some minutes to catch her breath and recover from her nightmare, she got dressed and finally came out of the tent to take her breakfast

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On the outside, a depressing grayish/white dominates. As soon as she steps out of her tent, the negativity of the white void hits her like a spit in the face.

Akeno : (sigh) I want to slip back into my sleeping bag.

Koneko: Me too. But Issei needs us.

It took them a moment of scouting to find the path that led to the forest near Yokai Academy, but oncethat was done, it didn't take long for them to set up camp.

Akeno and Koneko join Kiba's tent, where he cooks rudimentary but nourishing meals using camping equipment. Being responsible for feeding everyone, Kiba spends much less time than the others researching. He may blame himself for itbut he, of course, don't to talk about it. He has also been strangely silent since his arrival in the white void.

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