Devil's Wonderland

Game

Devil's Wonderland

Halo Zero: Game:

The following is a record of events leading up to the final gate opening. The first three days would set the stage to the next round of the Apocalypse Game.

-Friday Night-

"I'm sorry, brother," the amanojaku said in the sky. His brother glanced over at him.

"It's fine," the other demon said. "We'll get him next time."

"But you lost your vessel," his older brother said.

"I know," the younger demon said. "There are still plenty of vessels walking around down there." He gestured to the city below. "Just as long as we don't run into that creature again." The amanojaku looked puzzled.

"What do you mean?" he asked. His brother frowned.

"That girl who licked up the blood from the ground," he said. He shivered as he replayed the events in his head. "What the hell was that? I have never seen anything like her. She gives me the creeps."

"Are you serious?" the amanojaku asked. "You do know we are demons, right?"

"I know that," his brother said. "But what is she?" The older demon didn't want to admit it, but his brother did have a point.

The scene on the roof started breaking down. Masaomi was about to run over to Chiharu when Seiji made things worse.

"He called you a tadpole," he said to Mikado. "What does that mean?" The tadpole started to panic. All eyes fell on him. Mikado looked ready to run away. No... Don't look at me like that. I'm not a monster. Please... Don't...

While, Satoshi stood off to the side, smirking.

"And so it begins," he muttered to himself. "What are you going to do now, Chirin?"

Masaomi didn't know whether to tend to his best friend or Chiharu first. He looked between the two friends.

"Wait... Mikado... are you a tadpole?" Walker asked. The founder of the Dollars tried to calm and think out to get out of this. He gulped and dropped his shoulders.

"Yes," he said, defeated. Masaomi looked at him, wide-eyed. Nobody said a word. Well, it was out now.

[I don't think that we should be staying here,] Celty finally said with her shadows. [We should get off of the roof and continue this later.] Relief washed over Mikado.

"Yes!" Masaomi agreed. Oddly enough, not one seemed to question it.

"What about her?" Kadota asked, nodding his head over at Chiharu. The smile on her face was creeping everyone out.

"We'll take her home," Masaomi said. He and Anri walked over to the strung-out girl. Picking Chiharu up was like picking up a sack of iron. The whole time, she had an empty look in her eyes. Mikado said nothing as he followed behind with Noriko. No one else said anything as they left the roof. Just as she made it to the door, Michiko turned behind her and looked at the sky.

"Something wrong?" Shingen asked.

"No," she lied. The girl turned and walked ahead of him. Michiko couldn't tell them the truth. Not just yet anyway.

Around two in the morning, Mikado and Masaomi made it back to Chiharu's apartment. The tadpole had the girl on his shoulder.

"That's not hurting your shoulder at all?" Masaomi asked.

"No," his friend said. "She's pretty light, actually." The leader of the Yellow Scarves gave him a strange look.

"Are you serious?" he asked.