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"MMPH!!" That's all she had time to say, as she was pushed into the abyss. The blood crest on her forehead
glowed a faint, sorrowful light. Her last breath slowly passed through her lips. Letting her slip from his so called,
'saving grasp', his own crest shone a dark light, revealing his murderous past.
"HOLY CR-!!!" Mineko woke to the sudden pain of a ceiling in her face. She fell momentarily unconcious as she
saw his face one more time. As Mineko woke again with a throbbing head, she wondered exactly those people could be...
And why they seemed so familiar.
5 AM, still a lot of time before school. Mineko couldn't fall back asleep, one of her many little curses. So,
she decided to be evil, in a sense. She picked up the nearest phone, and dialed a number. The ringing of the phone woke
her closest friend, Renisa. "Whaaat....?" Was her tired and obviously annoyed response. Mineko replied, "I had
a dream, and-" She was cut off by a suddenly interested Renisa, "Yeah? Yeah??" The reason for this interruption
was a reputation of Mineko's to have weird and interesting dreams. In any case, she wanted to finish a sentense.
"Let me talk!" Now Mineko was annoyed, too. Renisa defended herself, "Okay, okay, just tell me what happened!!!"
Mineko explained the dream, from what she could remember, ending her story with a disturbed shudder. She asked,
"Ren? I have a really bad feeling about school today, I think I'm gonna fake sick." Renisa didn't approve,
"No! As long as I can't act or get sick, you're going too!" She hung up. Renisa had a notorious immune system that
wouldn't let her skip school, and an even more nototious mom who wouldn't let her fake it.
Renisa and Mineko met while walking on their way to school. They each let out a tired sigh, both of them wishing there wasn't
school to go to. They made small talk and discussed
Mineko's dream. A few minutes later, their conversation was cut short when Mineko stopped to a halt. She shivered violently and her eyes
went a bright blue, as a mark appeared on her forehead. "Mineko!!!" Renisa cried in alarm, "What's wrong?!
Are you ok??" Then Mineko fainted.
She awoke a few moments later, Renisa feverishly trying to help her up, "Uungh.... Ren...?" She shook her head and felt
... Almost normal. Tired, but otherwize okay. "Are you alright?" Renisa was worried. "Yeah... I think I'm ok now, what happened?"
Mineko asked. Renisa explained while trying to fix Mineko's hair and wrinkled clothes for school.
They walked as Renisa, scared and confused, relentlessly questioned Mineko. When they got to school, it had been later than
planned, and started to pour. So, finding the school doors locked, they went straight to their previously-arranged school
assembly in the old church. Their school was that poor, moneywize. It didn't receive government funding like public schools did.
Midway through a boring speech about drugs, lightning struck and the power went out. Stealth-texters lost their signals,
the phone lines were down, and the doors sounded as if someone had locked them for the first time in years. The lights
came back on, and with a heavy, bored, and somewhat relieved sigh from the stealth-texters, the speech continued.
Mineko and Renisa had a very small school, and, oddly enough, only 3 teachers and a prinicipal. The power went out again,
and there was a loud, violent pounding on the wall. In an attempt to calm and protect the students, the teachers had everyone
sit against the wall opposite the pounding and sat around them.
People appeared from seemingly nowhere, and were standing in front of the students. Mineko's forehead began to hurt again. Something about these
people, they weren't human. They had blue skin and glowing eyes, all had markings on parts of their body, which also glowed. They
looked a little like tattoos.
One of them came forward. The teachers, in an attempt to protect the students, forbade them to touch anyone. With an icy
stare at the students, two or three demon-like people came from the group, and knocked each teacher unconcious.
The apparent leader of the small group spoke in a strong voice, "Now I bet you're all wondering who we are... Well too bad, we only
came for the one with you who isn't a real human." Now he waved his finger and spoke in a taunting voice, "She's been a big coward and run away... Tsk tsk tsk!"
He grabbed a bottle of Holy Water. "Before we weed out the coward, let's show you a little something." He spat in the bottle
and swished it around. It turned an odd purple-ish color. "Voila! And we have tainted Holy Water!"
He grabbed the arm of a very frightened boy named Ginek. The demon taunted, with fake comforting, "Now now, don't be afraid, you're really human,
but now you're a human example, so I guess... Be afraid, very afraid!" Ginek struggled to get free. The demon forced him to drink some of the tainted Holy Water,
making Ginek throw up and fall, unconcious. As he did so, Mineko let out a yelp, for she had had a crush on Ginek for a long time.
Seeing this immediatley, the demon-like man seemed to see something and grabbed Mineko's arm. He yanked her up, despite her struggling.
Renisa lunged and tugged on Mineko's foot, "NO!" she screamed. An icy glare from the man made her become instantly silent in fear, and she released her grip.
She seemed to have gone into a daze.
"Now look what happens when someone else drinks it!" He forced Mineko to drink the tainted Holy Water. Unlike Ginek, the
defenseless students watched in terror as Mineko swallowed. At once she started to cough up blood, and became weak, almost
toppling over. Some of the girls screamed at the sight of the blood, and one very cowardly boy fainted.
"Aha! We have a match!" With those words the demon-like man pressed his lips against Mineko's. He tasted the blood, to
confirm she was who he was looking for, and so that she would not have died from blood loss. Mineko had become unconcious,
but her eyes opened a bit. They shone a bright blue light like earlier and now showed a strong resemblence to the demons' eyes.
She had also become very beautiful, and an intricate marking glowed on her forehead.
Renisa, being one of the only students who hadn't fainted at the odd occurences, managed to studder a weak sentence,
"...M-m-mineko.......... What happened to you...?" She was shivering violently, and along with the rest, fainted as she saw the man carry Mineko away, into the rain.