The Otaku Girl Adventures

Second of Many

We had all woken up. At around the same time. I was startled because I lost my gun.

Mostly I was disturbed. Because I had no means of defending myself.

With my eyes closed shut, I listen to chatter behind me.

"Kaneki, you said he was like us...."

This was the girl speaking.

"We have to tell him something."

The boy spoke next,

"This world was ours first we can't just let him in, he doesn't even know the rules."

"And if he does? He can help. I promise."

They looked over at me.

Crap. They know I'm awake.

I got up. Looked at them.

They looked back. Good.

It seemed like ages.

Flesh Eater even tilted his head a little.

Otaku Girl spoke first.
"Its Ward, right? I'm Minnie. Aka Otaku Girl. Aka your saviour."

"You're a loon." I reply.

"I get that, just let us take you back home, before the government scum, let loose their hellhounds."

With the uttering of her last word, I heard a noise in the distance.

Howling.

"Tell me first, what is going on? How were you flying?
I thought you were crazy."

"Everyone's crazy Ward, even you."

Minnie took me by the hand and I got up.

We broke into a brisk run.
The thought of trained killed dogs made me run faster.

We ran a good kilometer, and stopped by the main water tanks at the south side of the school.

Kaneki, the zombie boy, gave me my gun.
Only it was fully loaded and glowing a tinge of blue.

"Oh lifeless one," I said to Kaneki.
"What the fuck did you do to the tranq?"

To which he said, "I've simply improved its capabilities the old fashioned way"

"And what way is that?"

He reached into his coat and brought out a rainbow coloured square.

"You're telling me you used a rubix cube, to pimp my gun?"

"No, this is the device that powers my Imagnata, or my power. Its the device we used to find you."

I looked at Minnie.

She was perched on a pipe, perfectly balanced, sharpening her katana.

Huh.

She leaped down her air stairs and fell to the earth, speckling me in grass and dirt from her impact.

"Welcome, to your new life. As a Recluse."

"A Recluse? OK now you're just fucking crazy. Do you think this is a game?"

She laughed.

"Oh but it is,"

She walked slowly towards me.

"A very quick game."

She spun with her sword in hand, stopping an inch from my neck.

"A game where most people can't see,"

She jumped so fast she disappeared. She was out of view.

" or hear" she whispered in my ear.

She was gone again. I was frantic.

She shot out from the trees, hitting me in the stomach with her knee.
"Or feel"

"I may be crazy, but if I can take you anyday, Recruit."

Warn me about getting bruises said none to me today, ever.

No warning.

There wasn't a watch out, you'll get kidnapped and enlisted by lunatics.
No
Just pain.

Its been a few hours after my beat down.

Its a Saturday, so that means, we can hide out in the school till Monday when the army leaves to let us continue our education.

I'm healing, surprisingly slow.
I have a few cuts and grazes from sparring with Minnie and Kaneki.

They say I have fire, but its dim and needs matches and some wood.

So work basically.

As for aiming I've only been able to just miss strands of hair from them both.

This training, its basic. So I can fight off the hellhounds if they track us.

The school campus is large. At least the size of three small towns and a stadium.

We have many kids who attend school here. But no residents.

Its just a game of hide and seek really.

My thoughts trail off till dark.

The moon is out again. Almost looks like the night before, minus the hostage situation.

Kaneki and Minnie are by a tree each playing with guns or the weapons on themselves.

"Care to tell me about Recluses? Any backgrounds as to what we are?"

Silence.

Minnie speaks.
"Basically, we have bodies that are sensitive to our imagination, Imagnata."

"We use the devices here to transfer the flow to objects in the real world and manipulate it."

"Its imperative to be crazy to be a recluse, you need a state of mind so off putting, that your body takes hold of it to be stable."

"In that state we are at our most powerful. This power varies between Recluses. Depending on what you imagine your true self to be."

She then pulls out one of the devices.

"This is yours. Take it and use it on only things you need to use."

It'll take a form you will be comfortable with. Like my katana.

I take it and gaze as it morphed from a cube to a layer of glove fitting on my right hand.

"Whoa."

"Get used to it."

"Yeah that's the sad part."

"We are probably gonna die."

"Why is that?"

She picks up her katana and uses it to point to the hills.

"They've found us."

The dogs were there. Big black dobermans.

They ran down the hill, each one bursting into a blaze.

Flaming canines, were rushing in causing a fire where ever they stepped, burning the trees they had emerged from.

"Ward, grab your gun. We have some company."