RPG: Wonderland

[RyuTama]

Travis was in mid-leap, swinging his amputation saw with Raven's headphone cord as if it were the propellers of a helicopter. He caught a glimpse of the white woman appearing from the fiery depths below, but was knocked back to his senses (quite literally) as the man in black somehow made it past his "unavoidable" attack. The man's fist collided brutally with Travis' face, sending him flying backwards. He landed a mere meter or so from the edge, his injured leg coming into painful impact with the ground. "Son of a --!!" He cursed, tears overflowing from the brims of his eyes. He recognized the metallic taste of blood as it dripped onto his lips; his nose was bleeding profusely from being punched so viciously. He gently felt his nose, but it didn't seem to be broken. The cord of Raven's headphones had wrapped around his wrist as he had been thrown backward, and so he quickly reeled in his saw, which was still tied to the other end.

With a moan, he stumbled back to his feet, leaning primarily on his right leg. He prepared to begin his slinging attack again, but immediately stopped. Instead of facing the white woman and her dark counterpart like before, he was standing meters away from some sort of beastly, multi-armed monster, that very much resembled a Hindu idol. "What the hell is this?!" He heard himself huff reproachfully. The creature held a cruel war axe as well as two gigantic swords. Travis felt his strength falter slightly. How were they supposed to kill that thing?! He panted heavily, how much longer could he hold out? The intense heat and pain, as well as the nauseating stench of fresh blood, made him feel exhausted.

The monster began waving its colossal weapons wildly in an attempt to hack someone to shreds. However, due to the creature's size and the weight of its weapons, its speed seemed to have dropped considerably. He overheard Jackhammer call out to the group "aim for the head!"

But what good would that do...? They were already dangerously close to the beast, and it was steadily advancing, swinging its weapons all the while. Travis thought... and thought...

He suddenly realized how the creature's legs seemed disproportional to the rest of its body; they were oddly small compared to its massive torso and muscular arms. 'That's it!' He thought triumphantly. If he could somehow disable it's legs, it would be rendered immobile; not only that, but its head would also come into their reach as it collapsed. Rushing forward at full speed (he again ignored the stabbing pain from his lower left leg), he readied his amputation saw. Ducking underneath the glinting edges of the swords as they nearly decapitated him, he sprinted between the beast's legs and sliced mercilessly, ripping apart the muscles in its inner thighs. He continued running until he was behind the creature, and then spun around, flinging his saw away from him and holding on to the other end of Raven's headphone cord, as if it were a chain sickle. He swung his saw back and forth with astounding speed and precision, severing the hamstrings and the muscles in the back of the giant's calves. Due to the serrated edge of his saw, the attacks must have done irreversible damage to the beast's legs; it would be impossible for it to remain standing.

As it tried taking a step forward, its knees buckled, and its muscles ripped even more severely from the tension. It fell on all fours, making the walls tremble, and the edge's of the arena to crumble even more. However, the monster was now completely vulnerable. Only two of it's four arms were usable, since the other two were being used to support itself.

"Now! Go for it!" He yelled at the top of his lungs to the rest of the party, "Let's get this over with!" And he continued hacking away at the giant's knees and thighs, to thoroughly ensure it wouldn't be able to stand back up.

[Esiphas]

Jackhammer grinned. "Evidently,the legs are also a weak point." he aid, then he raised his hand cannon and fired all 9 shots Into the brasts head, the heavyand volatile rounds causing ruptures in the beasts head. He clicked the reload switch and the cells recharged. Then he ran forward, and wwith a cryy of fury, he deluvered a smashing hit with his wrench. The blow severed on of the supporting arms, causing the creature to topple again, and gorcibg it down to one arm. He jumped backwards and rolled into a combat position. "finish it!"

[HateSpawn98]

@ Everyone
As Travis cut up the beasts legs they fell down to there knees with a horrifying screech. There as when it got shot in the head and it's arms were severed by the immense blasts of the "Hand cannon" The creature fell backwards.
Heading right for Travis (because he was cutting the back of the legs and a cannon went into the beasts head forcing him backwards. *looks at Travis stats again* Whoops. Luck is not high enough, sorry don't take this the wrong way but...)
Travis made a run for it to escape from the beast.... he saved his life but the beast landed on his legs crushing them but because of the arc in there back he was able to save his right leg and it was not to badly crushed.

Anya watched as this happened she rushed over to try and grab him before the beast landed but was to late. She tried pulling him out pulling out her knife cutting pieces to get him out but before she could even make a single cut the beast returned to the two beings. They were lying there not moving to much.
A twitch here and there, but otherwise there was no movement from them. The air in the arena cooled and the bridges returned. There was only one door to enter and it was on the oppistite side of the arena, all looks clear. *Do not enter the door YET unless you wanna die for sure*

As the beast fell any other enemies left turned into dust. The Spartans fell allowing Takai to continue along with Kairi.
"Hey! What happened!" They did not get much action but when she saw someone down she went to go and find out what happened. "Takai come on!" she yelled.

OC: Well, for those who have not posted in a while @MikiParty★ I have not seen you post in a while. Well, your "lover" just got crushed how are you going to react?
Anyways, Sorry @Light Buster for not being able to blast any sound waves into it's ear and yeah. Let's see how everyone reacts.

[Light Buster]

(Joseph and Tsubame) "Travis."

They both rushed over to him as the room began to cool itself down, finally. Something that Joseph needed the most. Now all he needed is a bottle of water and some rest, if they was any. Joseph and Tsubame then began to help out Travis by pulling him out and up from the monster as they became Black and White again.

(Joseph) This trial is finally over, now what?

He wondered what was up ahead after going through something like this.

[Bubblegum Pop]

Raven ran as fast as she could to Travis' side. "Travis! Are you ok...." She sat next to him with a sad look. He was hurt and she wasn't. She felt like she didn't really contribute much, at least everyone was ok. She wanted to tell him how she felt, but then she remembered. He only saw her as a sister. She sighed deeply and just tried to relax.

(OC: Sorry guys, been busy. Grandma is in the hospital so I haven't had time to do much)

[RyuTama]

Travis lay quite still, stunned.

The moment he had heard a resounding cruuunch come from his left leg as the monster landed on top of him, he knew what had happened. He didn't move. Strangely, he felt no pain. Had the nerves been severed as well? Was he just in shock? He lay there, expressionless, not even bothering to speak or move as the others came to help him. The silver-haired military woman approached him and prepared to hack at the beast's flesh to free his leg, but the monster reverted back into two separate beings; the dark man and the white woman. They twitched slightly, but other than that, there was no movement. As the couple seemed to draw their final breaths, the heat in the chamber cooled tremendously. Travis felt as if a great weight had been lifted from his chest; it was much easier to breathe without being surrounded in such stifling heat.

"Travis," the two musicians called as they came to his side as well, but he hardly registered their voices. He remained lying there, not bothering to move. If he couldn't walk, what would be the point of continuing onward? He had been afraid of becoming a burden to the others, and that's exactly what had happened. Sure, he had assisted them in killing off that monstrosity, but at what price? There were at least four more trials ahead of them. What could he possibly do now that he was practically incapable of standing, let alone running or fighting?

'Idiot,' he cursed himself, shaking with rage and anguish. When his leg had been injured from his fray with the Spartans, he had the hope that it would heal. But now... he looked blearily down at it; it was horribly mangled and wrenched at an odd angle. The sight alone made Travis feel sick. It would be impossible to use it as any sort of support for at least several months, perhaps even a year or more. 'Idiot!'

He could feel tears flooding the corners of his eyes. Not in pain, but from an intense self-loathing. This was his fault; he couldn't blame anyone else. And he knew that if the others decided to leave him here, he couldn't blame them for that either...

"Travis! Are you ok...?"

Travis opened his eyes and saw Raven sitting next to him with a mournful expression. He frantically wiped the tears from his face and weakly sat up. "Y-yeah," he stammered, obviously lying. Clearing his throat, he looked around at the others that had come to his side. "Th-thanks for helping me, but I'm fine. It's just that... my luck sucks, is all. I'll be better after some rest," he continued with a pained smile, although anyone with eyes could see that he was full of it...

He glanced back over at Raven and suddenly noticed an emotion in her expression that he couldn't recognize. He then realized what it would mean for her if he didn't continue on; could she take care of herself? Deep down, he had faith that she could, but he still wouldn't allow her to be on her own. He had to move forward with her, no matter what else awaited them on their path. More than that, if he gave up here, what would happen to Maylene? Would he simply wake up at the desk in his room that he had fallen asleep at, and return to his normal life? Or...

He wouldn't allow it. Even if this was just some sort of twisted, vivid nightmare, he couldn't chance losing the people important to him; even if he died in the process of protecting them. Burning with his new resolve, he adjusted his glasses and ran his fingers through his messy, sweaty black hair. He then turned back to Raven again and kissed her on the forehead, much like how he would with his sister when she was distressed. He then managed a genuine smile and kindly said, "Let's get ready to go. There's no point in just sitting here, yeah?"

[Esiphas]

Jackhammer remained silent. He watched Travis and Raven interacting, waiting for a chance to contribute. Travis said something about moving then, and Jackhammer smiled. "Your right. thetes no point in sitting around. With legs the way you have, your not gonna be walking anywhere." He then heaved travis up by the shouldrs and draped him over his back, then helped Travis ajust to a sitting position. "Hold ontight." he said, then hestretched his legs and prepared to move.

[BlazingSoul]

" Looks like no one is waking up." says Arem as he waited around. " Looks like I have no choice but to go alone from here on out. There are traces that others that went before me. Hopefully I could find someone before anything big may happen." He says to himself then walks towards a forest thicket that seems to have walked on before. "It's good a thing that Yasuri-sensei taught me tracking and survival skills for Kyotoryuu. Well lets see who or what I'll encounter." as he continued on his way.
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Side note to the GM:
Since Valkarma has no signs of activity I'll go ahead then.

[HateSpawn98]

Everyone
As people gather around Travis, the women in white takes one last stand bleeding down most of her body. She falls to a knee and begins to breath heavy.
"Y-You have passed..." she coughs and lets out a bunch of blood
"Your trail, now enter the door, and fight A." he collapses to both her knees still coughing up blood she raises her right hand again everyone's cuts and bruises pilled off like a band-aid.
Everyone was being healed. However Travis left leg only straightened out there would be pain in it for a good hour or two but other wise he was healed everyone was but there energy was still drained. Then the white collapses and simply says "You have an hour before she comes out to fight..." then her body turns to dust along with blacks.

OC: Alright now I know a few things I needed to know *crazy-evil laugh* Oh I love messing with Travis I can't wait until trial two and three for all of you! XDD In your next posts everyone needs to post there worse fear (for there characters) in an OOC or something. I forgot to add that one the sign up *facepalm* Enter the door when your ready.

@BlazingSoul - When you awaken from your sleep people will slowly be waking up. You are standing you in a field that stretches far and wide there's a strong scent of flowers but other than that it's unbearably long.

OC: I hope you don't mind i'm going to PM the other guy that signed-up and try to get him to post if he is not going to respond I will go ahead and start you in it.

[Tragic~Romance]

Takai looked around disappointedly as the remaining spades were cast off the side into the abyss.

How lame... this better get more exciting or I may have to disobey blondie.

Sighing heavily, he hear Kairi call for him, and went ahead reluctantly to join her. He saw a small group of people ahead, and it seemed that one of them was injured. He noticed that they were all using a variety of weapons, and looked a bit tired, which told him they had been fighting for a while. Without speaking he approached the crowd alongside Kairi, his killing intent slowly dissapating.

(OOC: Takai's worst fear is his best friend from childhood, with whom he got into a fight with and lost badly. Ever since they have hated each other, and have promised to kill each other, but Takai doesn't know if he can beat him, even though he has trained for many years and killed countless people.)

[RyuTama]

Travis twitched in surprised as Jackhammer offered to carry him. It would be kinda embarrassing... but what choice did he have? It's not like he could move much on his own. Without complaint, he let Jackhammer heave him up onto his back. Grimacing from the horrible pain in his legs, he refrained from uttering a single word; if he spoke, he feared it would turn into a scream of agony. Shaking, Travis removed the pieces of cloth that had been plugged into his ears, and placed them in the pocket of his jeans. One end of Raven's headphone cord was still wrapped around his wrist. He reeled his saw in and untied it, handing the headphones back to her. Then, gathering up the bandages that he had wound around his right arm earlier, he re-wrapped his saw and fastened the ends of the bandages to his belt. 'Ready,' He thought grimly. He felt to make sure that the case of scalpels was still strapped securely around his shoulder; the exterior was a bit dirty, and there were a few spots of dried blood, but besides that, there had been no damage done. 'Well, damn, it looks like even inanimate objects are luckier than I am,' He thought, huffing in disapproval. Here he was, soaked in blood (the sudden re-realization made him sway dangerously in Jackhammer's grip), and mangled from the waist down, while everyone and everything else appeared to be hardly scratched. But then again, he would probably feel even worse if someone else other than he had been so severely hurt.

He carefully adjusted himself as Jackhammer prepared to move. Just then, he saw the white woman, whom he thought had already perished, lift herself up. She was coughing up blood; Travis figured that although she was moving, she had little more than a few minutes to live.

"Y-You have passed... your trail. Now enter the door, and fight A," she stammered in a raspy voice. Hacking up even more blood (Travis cringed from the sight), she raised her right hand. At this, he felt a strange sensation sweep throughout his legs. His left leg twitched out of reflex, and Travis flinched, expecting a great wave of pain. However, the wave never came. Confused, he experimentally flexed his knees. Looking down, he noticed that they had been healed; his splintered bones had reformed, and the torn muscles and skin were no longer a bloody mess. He still felt exhausted, but some of his vigor had returned; he could walk again! "You have an hour before she comes out to fight..." The woman coughed, and then collapsed, disintegrating to dust along with the dark man.

"Well," he said nonchalantly to Jackhammer, who was still carrying him. "This is awkward. I guess I'll just, get off." And with that, he struggled to get out of his hold, and ended up falling over backwards onto the dusty ground. "Oof!" He grunted, stumbling to his feet. His right leg felt as good as new, but his left still throbbed painfully. He could walk on it for the time being, but he would be limping for a couple hours, at the very least. He glanced around, searching for the scalpels that he had used in the fight against the Spartans. Grimly, he found and retrieved three of them. He spit on the blades and carefully used a clean part of his shirt to wipe the blood off. He then placed them back in the case. There were eleven remaining altogether; he would have to make sure to use them sparingly in the upcoming trials.

Travis caught a glimpse of someone out of the corner of his eye. He looked around and saw a young man and a young woman approaching them. He wasn't sure why, but the man gave him the creeps... his eyes seemed to almost burn with some sort of fiery bloodlust... was it just his imagination? As they came closer, however, the bloodlust appeared to evaporate... I guess it was just his imagination, after all. On a bit of an impulse, Travis took a step toward them. "H-hey, I didn't see you guys there earlier. I'm Travis. I guess we'll all be in the same group from now on, huh? What's your names?" He asked, hoping to persuade them into joining their team; the more help the better...

But wait, what was he doing? Was he some sort of Wonderland Welcoming Committee? Not only that, why was he approaching a new arrival in his torn and tattered clothes, splattered with blood? Good Lord! He stood there awkwardly, apprehensively awaiting the man and woman's reactions.



OC: How mean. You've put the poor boy through enough trauma to last a lifetime. T3T; Anyway, as was stated in my sign up, his worst fear is blood (Yet for some reason he doesn't seem to mind the sight of his own). To be more specific, he detests anything that causes bloodshed. He also can't stand war movies or horror films, because the gore makes him sick.

[Bubblegum Pop]

Raven couldnt help but let out a sigh of relief as everyones wounds healed. But the thought of Travis still treating her like a sister made her hurt inside. She looked over at Travis then walked away and sat far from the group, alone. She was happy that they passed this trial though, but she began to feel concern about the next trial. What would happen, and could she make it. She nodded to herself, and decided she would pass it for her brother.

Once again she glanced over at everyone then curled up, put her headphones and and drowned her sorrows in her music. Then she noticed someone new (Takai) She looked over at him and just kep staring. He looked dangerous but she couldn't help but want to welcome him warmly into their group. Her fear of communication settled in, so she decided to sit and stare.

(OC: Well of course Raven's fear is being alone in a crowd, but not its having Travis hurt.)

[Tragic~Romance]

Takai was immediately disgusted with the boy who greeted him, his torn clothes and disheveled appearance. He was impressed however that he wasn't dead.

"Hmph," he started, "I don't know who you people are, but I never said I planned on joining your little militia."

He looked around for a secong before continuing.

"I will probably have to follow you all unfortunately, since it looks like there isn't anywhere else for me to go." He scoffed, "Name's Takai, and I have one rule: Mess with me, and I will destroy you."

With that he walked a few paces away from the group and sat down cross-legged. He gazed around boredly and noticed a young girl with pure white hair looking towards the man he just met, but didn't know what to make of it.

[HateSpawn98]

@Tragic~Romance - OC: Your characters coldness. I love it. I can't wait to mess with you next hehehe....

Everyone IC: Kairi watches as Takai says what he said. After he sat down Kairi quickly said
"Please don't bother with him, he's a total loser. The blonde kid got him pretty good when we came and so did I." she says with a kind smile.
"I'm Kairi, your name's Travis huh? Cute name." she giggles.
"If you excuse me for a moment." She walks over to Takai and swats him in the back of the head.

"What the hell was that about? I dun really care what you issue is be nice at least for once. Baka..." She swats him again and walks back to the group.
"So who is all here? Once again I'm Kairi."

Anya decided to talk again "I'm Anya, try anything funny and I will seriously hurt you." Anya then looks in awe on how her wounds were healed.

[Bubblegum Pop]

She decided to be friendly, even though he looked dangerous she wanted him to feel welcome. She smiled softly and waved. Then she curled up and looked away. She felt lonely again, even though she had friends there there was an emptiness.

(OC: Too tired to make a bigger post xD)

[Light Buster]

As White healed everyone, Joseph began to feel better and hydrated again. Seems that he won't need any water after all. But about "her...". Was she a monster, evil super human, or something so whacked out that he can't even describe? He checked his body condition by placing his hand on his forehead and touched his arms and noted that his body temperature was back to normal. He then proceeded to check on Tsubame who did the same.

(Tsubame) "I'm okay, how are you?"
(Joseph) "Feeling better, for now. About her..."
(Tsubame) "I don't think it'll be pretty."

During their check ups, a new person joined them, but he didn't seem to be friendly.

(Takai) "I will probably have to follow you all unfortunately, since it looks like there isn't anywhere else for me to go. Name's Takai, and I have one rule: Mess with me, and I will destroy you."

Tsubame took note of him straight away and knew that she had to keep her distance from him, as if she remembered him. She went over to Joseph to tell him.

(Tsubame) "Joseph, we need to talk, privately."
(Joseph) "Sure."

The two then moved away from the group quickly and began to talk to among themselves.

(Tsubame) "I need you to do me a favor. I want you to avoid talking to Takai, the man that just joined our group, if you can."
(Joseph) "Is there a problem that you have with him?"
(Tsubame) "Yes, I remember him like I knew him from my childhood life..."

OOC: Although Joseph had no initial fear, his new worse is now the safety of Tsubame. He recently met her and for some reason, he is in love with her without even getting to know her that much. Even Tsubame is in love with him, which is also where her worse fear comes in, Takai and Joseph. Takai is Tsubame's number one fear because he met her in during her childhood and he came dangerously close to hurting her in many ways. Her next concern was Joseph's safety. She didn't want to lose him since they first met. (If this is not acceptable, let me know.)

[RyuTama]

The man appeared thoroughly appalled with Travis' appearance; he couldn't blame him though... What really caught him off guard, however, was his cold-hearted reply, "I don't know who you people are, but I never said I planned on joining your little militia. I will probably have to follow you all unfortunately, since it looks like there isn't anywhere else for me to go." He scoffed, "Name's Takai, and I have one rule: Mess with me, and I will destroy you."

Travis immediately knew that the obstacles ahead of them weren't the only things he had to worry about now. This young man, Takai, could become a problem. Travis realized that the exuberant bloodlust in his eyes had been real; he thrived on violence and bloodshed, something that Travis would not tolerate. The idea of slaughtering for the sake of pleasure and entertainment made his skin crawl in disgust. He never thought he would feel such an intense abhorrence towards anyone asides from that arrogant blonde boy; apparently, he had been wrong.

Takai turned away from Travis and went to sit somewhere by himself. The girl that had accompanied him then proceeded to introduce herself. "Please don't bother with him, he's a total loser. The blonde kid got him pretty good when we came and so did I," she said with a kind smile. "I'm Kairi, your name's Travis huh? Cute name." she giggled. Travis blinked, unsure of how to respond. She appeared benevolent, but it seemed as if she had some sort of connection to the blonde boy, which instantly made him wary of her. She then excused herself, and went to go smack Takai on the back of the head. This made Travis frown. What sort of regular person would so fearlessly hit someone who had such a strong aura of murderous intent? He couldn't help but be mildly impressed with her audacity, although it just made him all the more suspicious...

Travis noticed how the two musicians were discussing amongst themselves off somewhere to the side. He looked around for Raven, and saw her crouched down by herself, her headphones securely around her ears; she was probably using the music to calm herself down. He walked over to her (limping slightly), and sat down by her side wordlessly; he figured she would appreciate being left alone with her music for now. He sighed and wondered what would happen next. Every now and then, he would glance discreetly at Takai over the brims of his glasses, his fingers barely brushing the handle of his saw.

'I don't care what kind of sick, schizophrenic serial killer you are, or what sort of demented reasons you may have; If I see you try anything with these people, I'll see to it that you no longer have hands to hold weapons of murder.'

[Tragic~Romance]

Glaring at Kairi's head as she walked away he stood up, then saw the girl with white hair wave to him. something about her glance made him feel like he was looking in a mirror, and brought out the feeling of being alone, and never finding a way to fit in. He turned away and stepped away a few more yards. All these years of fighting had left Takai hardened and without remorse, yet he still felt vulnerable. People would tell him to lighten up as a kid, but he didn't, and instead closed up even more, hardening his shell (and adding a few spikes here and there). Not only was he alone, he had destroyed any opportunity to have closeness with anyone by becoming a murderer.

At least that white haired girl has a chance... I'm a lost cause, so there's no point trying. The only thing left for me is to kill or die, since for me death is inevitable.

Without warning, Takai fell into a brief coughing fit and covered his mouth with his hand.

Not here dammit...

Opening his hand he recognized the familiar driblets of blood, symbolic of tuberculosis, that appeared there.

Guess diseases are taken into the dream world too, that's a shame...

(OOC: This is where I introduce Takai's lifelong disease, tuberculosis. As a child, he was discovered to have a latent TB infection, so doctors began treating him immediately, until finally, it seemed that he was cured. Later on in life, around age 15, after coughing up blood and going to the hospital, it was discovered that his TB hadn't been cured, but instead went dormant and was undetectable in his blood stream. Over the next 4 years his TB had been off and on, and after it stopped and returned for a 2nd time, he gave up on medicine and declined any form of treatment. He hoped that by strengthening his body he could reduce TB's effectiveness, which worked for a decent amount of time. Finally, after being imprisoned, he no longer has a means to condition his body and fight the disease, so he awaits his inevitable death.)

[Esiphas]

Jackhammer stood silently besides Anyawhilst events unfurled. He then said to her "This new guy smells like Trouble ma'am. I dont trust him. At all." He looked down at his commander and sighed. He felt useless at themoment. He was inept at Social engagements, and hehad nothing to fight or fix. He supressed a shiver. "I.... no, nevermind." he said, and he slumped to the ground.

ooc- Jackhammers worst fear is being useless to everyone, paticularily Anya (Because shes his commanding officer, and because he likes her alot, he just cant say anything to her because he veiws it as disrespectfull to command and hes bad at social things anyway.)

[Bubblegum Pop]

Raven took off her headphones, ran to Takai and cautiously kneeled next to him. "A-are you o-ok?" she asked with her usual stutter. She didn't care who he was, she just wanted him to be ok. "Do you n-need a t-tissue?" She pulled out a small packet of tissues from her dress pocket and handed him one so he can clean himself up. he kept a warm smile on her face to hide her worries.

[Tragic~Romance]

Takai pushed the girl away with his other hand, and wiped his bloodied hand on his pants.

"Get back," he growled, "there isn't anything that concerns you. My problems are my own."

He looked away from her lonely expression.

It's just best you don't get near me.

Takai stood up abruptly and turned away from her. He didn't know why the girl was eager to help him, as if she didn't fear what could happen if she made the wrong move. He could easily break her neck in an instant, yet she didn't seem to notice... or care that Takai had murderous intent.

Who is this girl?

[RyuTama]

Travis watched in alarm as Takai began coughing up blood. Had he been injured while he wasn't looking? But, the white woman had healed all of them... so that must mean he had some sort debilitating disease? He continued observing but made no attempt to go over and help him. That sicko enjoyed the sight of blood, didn't he? Why should he interfere? 'Let him wallow in it,' he thought coldly. What he didn't expect, however, was Raven, who suddenly got to her feet and rushed over to Takai's side. She offered him a tissue to clean up the blood, but he abruptly shoved her away. At this, Travis stood up, ignoring the sharp pain in his leg.

Walking swiftly, he made his way to Raven and crouched next to her, placing a hand on her shoulder encouragingly. He glared at Takai, who had turned away. "What's your problem? She was just trying to help. We're all here to help each other; there's no point in trying to come off as some sort of hot shot," he called after him, frowning. "I don't know how long you've been here, but let me assure you that there's no way you can survive this place if you keep turning everyone away when they try and help you."

He didn't know why he was telling Takai this. Why was he wanting him to accept their assistance? They had just met, but he already disliked him. Maybe it was because he had seen Maylene hack up blood after her chemotherapy; maybe he felt a sort of innate sympathy for the guy after discovering his illness.

But regardless, he still felt wary of him. Lecturing Takai would hardly do any good against his cold, arrogant personality. Without waiting for a reply, Travis stood up and glanced at the door that the white woman had opened with the last of her strength.

"'You have an hour before she comes out to fight,' she had said," He mumbled to himself. "Did she mean we have an hour to rest before our next battle, or that we need to try and escape before then? What do you guys think?" He asked, turning back to face the rest of the group. "Should we wait here a bit longer, or do we go through the door now?"

[Bubblegum Pop]

Raven stood, she wasn't afraid or sad. She placed the tissue down in front of Takai and smiled. "U-use it whenever y-you need it, okay?" She smiled warmly then walked back to where she was sitting. She almost ignored Travis, she wasn't sure why. She was still upset at the fact that he saw her as a sister, so he was unable to return her feelings. She was just looking for someone to love, she was opening up her heart but it seemed no one wanted it. I guess all there was to do was wait for the next trial.

[Yukari]

Anya looked at Jackhammer, seeing him as a battle companion more than the lower ranking officer that he was. She ran her fingers through her sliver hair and sighed. He wounds that had been hurting were now completely healed. She was surprised she survived this event. She went in knowing there was a possibility of losing her life, but she was fine with that. It was her job to protect others.

"Yeah I agree, Jackhammer, but he is now part of our group, weather he likes it or not. The more the better. Plus although her is blood thirsty, I don't think he will kill any in our group." she said on a whim and watched the newcomer cough up blood. Knowing the symptoms of TB since she was a double major of military science and nursing in college, she backed up. "grozit." She whispered to herself. "That man has TB. You get any of his bodily fluids in yourself, you'll get TB too."

She knew there was no cure for TB. She felt pity for the newcomer. Grabbing her first aid kit, she took out a surgical mask and walked to the newcomer. She covered her mouth as she did so and handed the man the mask. "Put it on before you infect us all and we end up like you."

She backed up again to stand beside Jackhammer. She glanced at Jackhammer out of the corner of her eye remembering his fear of her not breathing when he pulled her out of harms way. She blushed slightly remembering his ear to her chest to hear her heart beat. She turned her form slightly so Jackhammer didn't notice and pretended it was the flush of an over heated body due to the heat that was earlier in the air.

OOC: Anya's fear is her alcoholic mother and abusive father. When she moved from home to college, she shan't talked to them or seen them since nor did she want to.

[Sheraku]

Just waking up Ukiyo found himself in a very large garden with no recognition as to how he arrived. Also to his dismay he was surrounded by thousands of strangers. Removing his glasses with one hand, he rubbed his eyes with the other, then blinked a few times to be sure he was fully awake. Progressing across the grass slowly, he paced around, seemingly in circles. No matter where he went there was just to many people to separate himself from all of them. He decided to just play it cool and decided to sit in a soft patch of lucious green grass. He then reached into his coat pocket and felt for his note pad and pen he used to write down his thoughts.

Usually Ukiyo used this miniture pad to attempt to put his novel ideas on to paper, but he decided to use it now, more as a diary. In his opposite pocket was a black fine point pen. Ukiyo brought the tip to the paper and stalled, for an odd reason he could not recall the date. Bringing his free hand to his forehead he let out a long quiet sigh, then brought his focus back to the blank page. Finally deciding it unimportant he began writting.

I find myself in feild I've never seen before, surrounded by a multitude of strangers, none of which I feel a particular need to speak with. Questions cloud my mind, the first noticed is, "Why can I not remember today's date?" Another, "How did I arrive in this peculiar garden?" I believe I fell asleep in my room last night, "How is it when I wake I'm completely lost? Is it possible that someone could enlighten me?" I notice some of these strangers appear blank in expression, others show slight signs of fear...

Ukiyo stopped putting the cap back on his pen before placing it in his left coat pocket. His note pad was also returned to it's original location. Returning to his feet he glanced across the crowed searching for a particular emotion, one of calmness. One that he could see as collected and able to grant assistance.