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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:34 pm
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Naoki drifted in and out of consciousness. She was barely aware of anything going on anymore. All she knew was that she was freezing, and every time she tried to stand, the world tilted around her.
She was terrified too. The fever had gone so high in such a short amount of time and caused her to hallucinate. The stress had finally cracked her as well. As long as the fever didn't go down, she would be delusional. All she could see was everyone already dead, walking towards her, reaching out.
"Stay away from me," she mumbled, teeth chatterring. She squeezed her eyes closed so that she wouldn't see them anymore. "Stay away!" she screamed.
Naoki stood and ran, bumping into things, but she ran across and out of the room, meaning to lock herself up in the empty room across from this one. But as she sprinted blindly out the door, she tripped on a pair of legs the were stretched out in the corridor.
She couldn't get up anymore, but all she saw was silver hair and Koji's face before she passed out again.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:30 pm
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All Naoki could see was the nightmare that was happening in the real world. Even in her sleep she couldn't escape it. It was cold. She saw death, blood, destruction everywhere... She thought she'd go insane, wanted it all to end, then--
"Nee-chan!"It was dark all of a sudden. Naoki couldn't see anything, but the voice was familiar."Nee-chan!"
Rikka? Is that you?
The voice laughed a little, and Naoki saw that sweet little face through a faint glow of light. Suddenly, it was warm and nice. What are you doing in my head? she wondered hazily.
"I can't stay long," Rikka said. "But nee-chan, you have to tell Mama Sire not to blame herself for what happened, 'kay?"
Why, what happened? Naoki thought. I don't remember anything.
"That's coz you're sick right now. But I'll make it better now, and when you wake up, nee-chan, when you wake up..." Rikka's voice was beginning to fade.
Wait, just tell me--
"I'll be okay now. I'll be okay. Tell Mama Sire for me, tell her, and Koji-nii-san too? I have to go now...
Where are you going? Naoki cried in a panic. Then she shielded her eyes, because the faint glow of light became bright as the sun. She couldn't see the little girl anymore. Rikka!!
Get up now, nee-chan! You're all better! Rikka was laughing happily somewhere, getting farther and farther away. But I gotta go. Mommy and Daddy are waiting for me!
Naoki's eyes snapped open, and from where she lay she could hear sobs coming from a room. Then she heard Koji shouting... She tried to sit up and find out what was wrong, but her head felt like it weighed a ton. Somehow though, she already knew what had happened, and she curled up silently, shaking with sobs.
Rikka...
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:24 pm
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"Rikka was never a friend," Naoki said, voice cracking. Her eyes were still closed. "From the start, she had always been worth more than a sister to me."
Shakily, she sat up and propped her back against the wall, taking in as deep a breath as she could. She had almost slipped off the far end, she knew. Naoki tried to focus herself again, align her thoughts and forget fear. Forget everything. If they started falling apart now, they might as well have died from the start, and they had gone too far to even think about giving up just like that. And she most definitely didn't want Rikka to have died in vain.
"No, not the military," she murmured. "There's no trusting those idiots anymore. They're going to pull another cheap trick since they probably think the first wave... me and Sirena and the others... are all dead already. Unless someone has been giving them reports." Naoki stopped there, not wanting to sound like she was accusing anyone of being a spy.
She stood, trembling, and grabbed her things from the room, avoiding the lifeless corpse of the little girl on the floor. She hoisted her rifle over her shoulder and nodded grimly.
"I don't know about you, but I'm not staying in this dump a minute longer. Ever since we got here, worse things have been happening to us. Let's go find somewhere else to bunk in. We could camp in the bus, even. Anywhere but here."
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