The Strangers

(I know, it's bad, I can't finish the whole thing yet, I still need to edit it like hell, it will be completely different when I'm finally done.(Second Stage of Intro making.) (... by the way, the characters in the video, -Represent- the characters in the story, they do not necessarily look like them))

The Strangers : Part 1 - What if I wanted to fight?


There once was a group, a group of people with certain... "abilities" some would call it. Anyway, this is the story of those people. We would call them.... abominations, because they're different. Let me get started with the story, but where should I start...? Hmm.... how about with the one who caused the war. Itsumi Rivers had dark brown hair, he was about Five foot five, and wore a white T-Shirt and jeans. "Don't touch Jill.." said Itsumi to the woman taking him to a black stretch limo. "Alright." said the woman. She took the whip out of her hand and gave it to Itsumi. "Where am I going?" asked Itsumi "To.. a happy place." said the obviously untrustworthy woman. "No, me and Jill don't wanna go!" yelled Itsumi.

A gray cat with green eyes passed by the car and looked at the yelling thirteen year old. "You again." said the woman, pointing to the cat. "Yes, me again, by the way, I have a name, its Sora, bitch." spoke the cat. "Did... he just talk?" asked Itsumi, "Kid, move, now." said Sora the cat. Itsumi looked up at a streetlamp and took his whip then threw it at the lamp, using it to get himself away from the lady and cat. Sora's eyes glowed a dark green "Crap..." said the lady right before she was thrown back, about a few meters, along with the limo by an unseen force.

"Let's go, kid, we don't have much time." said the cat. Itsumi followed the cat down the street, away from the limo and woman. "Who were they?" asked Itsumi, "Hunters, in a way, they hunt down our kind and capture us. That reminds me, I should change back." said the cat. "Change back?" asked Itsumi, his question was then answered as the cat, Sora, morphed somehow, into a boy about Itsumi's height with white hair, gray shirt, and jeans, he had cat ears and a tail, he also had green eyes. "Is stuff like this gonna happen often to me?" said Itsumi. "Very often." said Sora, scratching his ears.

Itsumi and Sora, stopped, they had ended up in a wide, open field. "Alright, Ema, lets go. We can't stay here too long." Said Sora. "Ema..?" Itsumi asked "Hi, Itsumi." said a voice from nowhere. "Um... say what?" said Itsumi, in front of Itsumi appeared a girl a few inches taller, she had long red hair and blue eyes, she wore a blue shirt and black long pants. "I'm Ema, Ema Ryan." said Ema. "So.... where are we going?" said Itsumi. "Talk later, leave now." said Sora. "Always wanting to rush things..." said Ema as she pulled out a sterling silver dirk.

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(I can't draw, don't criticize me over not being original and using pictures.)

Ema pointed her weapon north, "Home." she said, a blueish, blackish spiral appeared in front of her, it grew larger and larger. She jumped in, "Lets go." said Sora as he grabbed Itsumi's shirt and pushed him into the portal. Itsumi found himself in the middle of a large field "Where... are we?" asked Itsumi, "Duck, like now." said Sora. Itsumi ducked, then got up and saw that a soccer ball had flown right past him at incredible speed. "Ema... why did you pick the soccer field?" asked Sora, "Because, it's fun." said Ema with a smirk. The three teens moved away from soccer field. "Okay, now to show you everyone..." said Ema "See that girl right there? The goalie?" "Yes, what about her?" responded Itsumi, the girl Ema had pointed at had long blond hair and red eyes. "That's Alice, she has powers, like the rest of us." said Ema.

Ema then pointed to the other goalie, a kid with strange brown hair and who wore blue shorts and a white shirt. "That's Kenji, he has the greatest power out of all of ours." said Sora "What can he do?" asked Itsumi, Ema then pointed to a soccer ball about to be kicked at Kenji "You'll see right now." said Ema. A tall boy with black hair and black, eyes, he wore the same clothes as Kenji. with a scythe on his back, it was silver with strange ribbons flowing on on it, he smiled then kicked it at Kenji. "Lulu thinks he can kick it past Kenji... poor, ignorant, Lulu." said Sora.

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Kenji looked up at the incoming ball. He grinned, he made a loud quack sound and generically burst into a huge cloud a smoke, the ball went into the smoke, only to be knocked back at the same speed. The smoke cleared to reveal that where Kenji stood, was now a huge duck with Kenji's features, the same hair and eyes, the clothes. "Wow... that's a useful power." said Itsumi, looking at the giant duck.

"Now, over there in the emo corner is Gabriel." Said Ema as she pointed to a someone about as tall as Itsumi sitting under a tree, looking at the game, the kid had messy dark brown hair, and brown eyes, he wore jeans and a black long-sleeved shirt. Gabriel had a katana as long as him, right next to him, it was a silver blade all over, just pure silver. "Gabe is able to manipulate the elements. Alice believes it's just like being telekinetic, but have a better control over things." explained Ema. "You should see Gabe's room, it's like some type of garden." said Sora. "Rooms? What is this place, anyway?" asked Itsumi. "This place, is where people like us can live in peace, tranquility, we go out, finding others to keep them safe from people like that woman who tried to take you." said Sora "Now... let us show you your room." said Alice with a grin, appearing from behind Sora, "Hmmm... I guess you could stay right next to Ema and Gabe." said Alice.

"Alright." said Ema. "Follow me, Itsumi." said Ema as she walked over to a building about three stories high, it had been covered in vines and plants. "What's with the vegetation?" asked Itsumi, "Plant powers, tantrum; Not a good combination." said Ema as she walked him into the building, the halls were green with a lamps on the walls. Itsumi looked up and saw a room with a gold label on it. "Ema" it said, the other one said "Gabriel" and the one in between the two rooms said "Itsumi" "Did... Alice do this before we even got in?" asked Itsumi. "Yep." responded Ema. Itsumi opened the door and walked in, the room had a small bed, a couch, and television on the wall, there was a bathroom, it was a clean room.

Itsumi looked out of the window in his room. He could see the vast, wide, open field out there. At this time, while Itsumi was adjusting to this new place, the woman from before had been inside a candle-lit room. She walked over to look at a mirror "I'll get that brat..." she muttered as she looked in the mirror silently. "Do you know anything about them? Do you know what they want? Who they are?" asked a voice from behind. It was Gabriel, the kid from the field. "No... do you?" asked Itsumi back. "They're an organization that hates us, that wants us dead." Gabriel said, "They were once peaceful with our existence, then, one day, they decided they hated us and wanted us dead.".

At that moment, while they were speaking, the woman from before was still staring into the mirror, she touched her forehead using her index finger. She then became engulfed in a cloud of smoke "They are... " began Gabriel. The woman's hands and feet began to change, from human feet and hands into claws and hind legs, her skin glowed and then became a colourful green colour. "the JINJO." Gabriel finished. Itsumi then asked "What's a JINJO?" "The Jinjo was a race of creatures, they were peaceful, never wanted trouble, we even had a treaty with them." said Gabriel "By we, I mean Alice. One day their goddess came to Alice with threats of war and death, they've even gotten the ability to change into a human form." The woman turned around then said "I, Venus, commander of the western JINJO army, will destroy him..."

Gabriel left the room after explaining the JINJO to Itsumi. Itsumi sat there in the bed staring. He began to think about how he got to this place, how it all began. As a child, Itsumi had a whip called "Jill" he would always keep the whip with him, convinced it would speak to him. He also had this strange ability to alter the emotions of the people around him. His mother noticed this and called a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist was secretly helping the JINJO, he called them and they came to take him away, saying to his mother that they were taking him to an asylum. "This.... is so confusing." said Itsumi, quietly, knowing no one could hear him. "Come on, you can hit better then that, Lelouch!" said a voice outside, Itsumi looked out to see that Kenji had a bat in his hand and he jumped out to his left, dodging an attack from Lelouch. "You really want me to try? I might kill you, since you have no weapon, but a stick." said Lulu.

"Hm.... I think that this wooden old stick is better then that cheap plastic you carry." said Kenji. Lulu struck again in Kenji's direction. "Break it up you two!" said Alice, coming in. "Both of you, in trouble." said Alice, Kenji and Lulu looked at Alice, her eyes began to glow red and then Lulu and Kenji both disappeared. "What... did you just do?" he asked Alice from afar. "Oh... they're just stuck in a twisted torture room, Kenji's currently being thrown against a wall for three days, and Lelouch is being stabbed by his own scythe." she explained. "... alrighty...." said Itsumi as he closed the window and lied down on the bed, he tried to get some sleep, a few minutes later, he drifted off.

The Strangers: Part Two - With new discoveries, comes new adventure


Itsumi awoke to a knocking at the door of his room. He got up and opened it "Yes...?" muttered Itsumi. "Let's go, you have to learn to fight." said Alice. Itsumi brought Jill and followed Alice to the field, it was sunset. "Alright, now, who do you prefer to fight?" asked Alice as she pointed to everyone else outside. "Surprise me..?" said Itsumi. "Alright, go." said Alice. At that moment, Gabriel, Sora, and Lelouch had disappeared from their spots. "Wha-" Itsumi was knocked into the air before he could finish. He flew a few feet off the ground, then came back down. "Alright, I think Itsumi here, needs a bit of help." said Sora in his feline form, standing next to Gabriel and Lelouch in a row. Ema stood up and vanished, though only Itsumi noticed this.

Suddenly Lelouch vanished and appeared right above Itsumi, slashing down with his scythe. Itsumi flinched and after a second he was sure he got it, he looked up to see Ema using her silver dirk to block the scythe's attack. "Here's backup." said Ema as she knocked back Lelouch. "Can she even do that?" Sora asked Alice. "I don't know, it's your fight, I really don't care." she responded. "Itsumi, I'll take on Lulu and Sora, but Gabe... you'll have to do that on your own, I'm only one invisible girl." said Ema. Gabriel grinned, he hadn't fought like this in a while. "I'll go easy, no elemental stuff, sound good?" said Gabriel, holding up his katana. Itsumi brought out his whip, Jill and prepared to fight.

Gabe rushed at Itsumi with katana held high. Itsumi had to think quick, he examined Gabriel as fast as he could and saw the Gabe had left one spot completely open, his legs. Itsumi whipped out Jill at Gabe and tied his left leg, then with all the strength he had, he pulled and threw Gabe about seven meters behind him. Gabriel got up "And here I thought you couldn't fight... hmph" said Gabriel, he held his katana up and and his eyes turned a bright blue. The water from the river about twelve meters away flew up high into the sky. Itsumi held Jill up, preparing for an attack.

Gabriel aimed the blade at Itsumi and the water surrounded the blade. " How am I supposed to defend myself against this?" thought Itsumi, the water flew at him, he had about five seconds to think of something. "I got it!" said Itsumi, he looked up at the roof of the building, just as he thought, there was a chimney made of red brick up there. He attempted to use Jill as a grappling hook. "Come on,..." he said as he pulled, he launched himself up at the roof, landing right on it. The water flew right past the point where Itsumi was standing. "Seems you're good, but not good enough!" said Gabriel as the water changed direction and flew towards Itsumi. Itsumi jumped back and thought "How do I destroy this thing?"

Itsumi thought that if Gabriel could extend telekinesis as far as controlling the elements, Itsumi could do something similar. He forced his power to control emotions as far as possible when the water was heading right for him in a spiraling form. The water crashed into something, but not Itsumi, he looked up to realize that there was something blocking the water, he looked down and saw that Ema was still fighting Lelouch and Sora. Alice's eyes widened, " Another one!?" she thought to herself. "Only Gabe and me were able to force our original powers far enough to unlock something new. Now this kid can too?" she muttered. Itsumi saw that he was the one stopping the water. It was as though he summoned a shield from his mind. "What the...?" said Itsumi.

After a few seconds, Itsumi got over it and dodged, taking away the shield. He looked at Gabriel, Gabe began to smile "This... should be so much more entertaining." he said as jumped, all the way to the top of the roof where Itsumi was. He charged and Itsumi immediately focused and another shield blocked Gabe's attack, stunning him, Itsumi took this moment to attack him using Jill's strength and power. "I win?" asked Itsumi, seeing Gabe on the floor after the attack. "Yeah, you kinda do." said Alice from below. She smiled and shook her head, " He really is one..." she thought, waving up at him.

While I may have said that Itsumi was the last one to join, there were more. They didn't exactly join, so I didn't think it mattered, but, it's time to tell their parts to this story too. Elsewhere, a thirteen year old boy named Kero also had abilities. Kero was a runaway, his parents were convinced he was a monster, seeing him use his abilities. Kero had curly red hair and green eyes, Kero wore a yellow hoodie and jeans, he was five foot four.

Kero's ability is a strange one indeed. He is able to grow a tail, he also has great acrobatic skills, he has increased strength with the tail. Basically, he has the power to become a very strong primate, kind of animal. Kero looked out towards the sky, he wondered what would happen, what would become of him now. "Well... what do I do now? I can't just live like this forever." muttered Kero, standing atop a tree which was just a mile away from where the group of strange humans lived too. Kero could sense danger, and right now, he felt as though he was being watched. He jumped out of the tree, landing on his feet, he looked around.

"Come on out, I know you're here." said Kero. A stretch black limo appeared, the passenger door opened and out came a woman, she turned around, revealing herself to be Venus. "We're here to take you to a place, a place where you will be treated well." she said. Kero knew she was lying, somehow, he knew, by the way she spoke. "... no response, eh? Kill him." she muttered. Kero's eyes widened "...wha- what?" he could barely speak. Meanwhile Alice sat on the roof, looking out at the night sky with Gabe and Ema. Suddenly, Alice's eyes widened "A boy, redhead, tail, mile away, Venus, death threat." she said, still staring blankly, she came back to earth after a few seconds. She looked out north "Let's go." she said as the trio jumped off the roof and charged north, weapon in hand.

Kero jumped back and glared at Venus, he looked around for some means of escape, there were none. All he could do was sit there while men in suits carrying guns came closer to him. Kero felt a rush of wind, he looked to the left to see three people he had never seen before, they were Gabe, Ema, and Alice, who had just gotten in time. "I'll take Venus." said Ema "I get the guys in suits." said Gabe and Alice at the same time. They looked at each other. Gabriel took his katana, Alice brought her charkrams out, they looked like red and silver enlarged shurikens. Alice looked at Kero "Um... yeah... explanations later, fight, now." she said as she prepared for a fight.

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A girl, a thirteen year old girl about Kero's height was walking around the corner. She instantly recognized the woman's face. "Why is she here?" muttered the girl silently. The girl ran up to woman and stood right in front her. "Again!?" asked the girl. "Who are you?" asked Ema "I.. am Ruki, how do you know this woman?" the girl asked Ema. Ema then examined Ruki, seeing that Ruki was wearing a white shirt and tan pants. Ruki looked up "You need help?" Ruki asked Ema. "Nah... but if you want, sure." Responded Ema.

Ruki pulled out a little box, it was small, black, and had "R" painted onto it in white, she opened the top, it was a deck of cards. Ema looked at the girl strangely, was she really gonna fight using cards? She continued, she took the top card off and stared at it. "Demon..." muttered Ruki, as she spoke, the area around the group grew darker and darker, the clouds swirled in a pitch black colour, Ruki looked up at Venus with a blank glare. Suddenly, Venus had screamed, the group all turned to see that Venus clawed by an unseen claw. "I... like your powers." said Ema, "But... it won't do much at this level, I could barely claw her like that." said Ruki. Ruki picked up the card which appeared on the floor, it was a card with evil golden eyes, then a claw mark through it.

"Come on, let's go..." Alice began "Gabe, distraction!" Gabriel nodded, he aimed his blade up and his pupil became gray, clouds came down and surrounded the area, covering it with a dense fog. After the fog cleared, everyone except the JINJO members had gone. Back at the building where our little group of people lived, Kero and Ruki were being asked to join. "So... what do you say?" asked Alice, "No..." Kero stated, "I don't want to join some group, I'm okay on my own.". Alice looked at both of them, "Alright, but, don't you both need places to stay?" asked Alice, "Yeah..." they both responded.

"Kero... you can stay in the room to the left of Gabe's." said Alice "Wait, why does everyone have to stay near my room?" asked Gabe, Alice looked at him and said "Because, who better then the garden freak to have people around?" "... ugh... I really need to find a way to stop setting myself up for these kinds of things." said Gabriel. Kero entered the room to the left of Gabriel's, it was the same as Itsumi's. "Ruki... you can stay in the room next to Sora's." said Alice, she then lead Ruki to the room right of Sora's. Ruki went inside and quickly drifted off to sleep on the bed.

Itsumi awoke to find that there were two people he never saw before out in the field. Now, Kero and Ruki never actually joined, and I will stress this fact throughout the story. "Who're they?" asked Itsumi, "Kero and Ruki, like you, Venus tried to abduct them, we got to them first." said Ema, behind Itsumi. Ruki walked over behind the building, passing the rooms. "Each window is open, they must like sunlight." said Ruki, continuing down the side of the building. She saw that one window wasn't open, obviously a closed window wouldn't be strange to any other person going down any other road or place.

She walked closer to the window and looked in, she saw the boy from last night, Gabriel, meditating next to a pond. " Who has a pond inside their room?" she thought. The water from the pond began to rise in a spiral formation, the water was moving around, it looked as though it was full of life. She stepped closer to get a better look, when, she stepped on a vine, tearing it from the wall. That small tear sound was enough to break Gabriel's concentration, he looked back and saw that it was Ruki. When he wasn't looking, the water formed into a rose. Ruki laughed, Gabriel eyed her strangely, she pointed to the pond, he turned to see the rose formation, he didn't do it intentionally.

Gabriel sent the water back into the pond. "Uh... um..." Gabriel tried to speak. Ruki walked away and when he was sure she was gone, Gabriel slammed his palm into his face. "Gabe, you moron." he said. Kero looked around and found a tree, he climbed to the top, bored, he looked down to see Ruki smiling. " At least she's having fun here." he thought. Meanwhile, Alice sat atop a building, watching the others, Kenji right behind her. "Kenji... there was something about Venus, something I couldn't quite get, she was twelve times weaker and had some familiar essence in her... Sora hurt her badly with just a push... something's not right." she said to him.

Kenji looked at her, "Why don''t you just worry about Kero and Ruki, you beat Venus. Be happy, you won the fight." said Kenji, "That's what I'm worried about, we're winning all the fights. Who's gonna win the war?" asked Alice, "We're not even sure that there will even be a war." said Kenji. "Look around. In the past week they've tried to kill three of us at an early stage. They're planning something." said Alice. "We won't know till' it happens." said Kenji as they both sat there, watching the others do what they want, happily, freely. Alice wanted to keep this, the feeling that people like her could feel safe, protected, calm.

The Strangers : Part 3

Venus fell to her knees. "Damn, it's breaking out again! Let's hurry back." she yelled, she limped back to the limo. Her leg had branches that ripped out from underneath her skin. She yelled in pain when she sat down on the seat. Her eye twitching, she said "Drive, fast!!!" The car drove at over 110 miles per hour. The car slowed down and arrived at a stone wall. Venus climbed out and threw a card with the word "JINJO C+" on it.

The stone wall glowed and a stone door formed in the middle, Venus quickly opened it and picked up the card, she ran down the old steps lit by torches. She arrived in a large room, "I knew you couldn't handle it, Venus." said a voice from behind. "Shut... up... I can handle it. So back off, Sorrow." said Venus. A man with dark blond short hair wearing a red and black T-Shirt with jeans walked into view. "You think you're so much better then me because you didn't nearly pass out from it." said Venus "Well, it's like they said, some of the JINJO are ready for it and some aren't." Sorrow responded.

Venus thought back to when she asked them to give her it. "It" in this case was an injection of mutant power, taken from people like Alice, to make the JINJO even stronger, hundreds of JINJO died testing it. Venus looked back at Sorrow, he was grinning. "Don't you dare, they're my targets." said Venus firmly. "The thought never crossed my mind." responded Sorrow "But... now that you mention it, it would be fun." Sorrow grasped something in the dark, he brought it out into the open. It was a black, double-sided axe, it was as long as Sorrow was tall, and he was five foot nine.

Sorrow walked towards the exit, but, before he left, he dropped his weapon and said "I won't need something like this to kill a couple of brats." he then walked out and headed toward the building where our little group of kids with special abilities lay sleeping. Venus could do nothing to stop him in her state, she sat there angrily and the soon passed out from the pain. He arrived at the building in twenty minutes. Alice lay there in her bed, sleeping, dreaming happily. She was rudely awakened... by herself. She stared blankly into space, "Commander. Here. Trouble." she muttered.

Alice quickly ran out the door of her room and knocked on Lelouch's door "Lelouch, no time to explain, just bring your scythe." she yelled. Itsumi awoke, hearing the shouting from upstairs. Itsumi walked out his door, taking Jill with him. Gabriel, having not slept a wink opened the door and walked out to the main door with blade in hand. Lelouch lazily walked out of his room carrying his scythe, he continued down the stairs and reached the door, seeing Itsumi and Gabriel there. "What's going on?" said Ema walking down the stairs with Kenji and Alice. "We were hoping someone would tell us." said Itsumi. "Guys, this time, it isn't training, it isn't a low ranking JINJO officer, it's a high commander, even stronger then Venus. He's here, going to attempt to kill us." explained Alice. Everyone brought up their weapons and waited for Alice's signal to go outside.

Alice looked at the others. She nodded her head and they slowly opened the door, walking outside. Itsumi was the last one to step out, he looked around. "Hey, you guys finally come out, now, I don't have to waste time killing you one by one." said Sorrow, the man from Alice's vision, standing on the roof of the building behind them. "Who are you!?" yelled Alice, "Me? I'm just Sorrow, the man who's going to kill you." said Sorrow.

"You can try, but, I can promise, you're the one who's gonna die." said Ema as she held up her weapon and went invisible. Sora had already transformed into his cat form. Sorrow made the first move, he jumped into the air incredibly high and became a huge ball of fire. "JINJO can't have the powers of a firestarter, what's going on here?" thought Alice. Everyone jumped as far as they could out of the way of the fireball. The ball crashed into the ground and out of the smoke walked out Sorrow.

"How are you a firestarter? JINJO don't have powers!" yelled Alice. "I think you should be told before you die. Remember the imperfects? The ones you deemed imperfect. They came over to us, the JINJO scientist, Ganku, took from each of them... their power, he had formed it into a formula that would give us what they had. One of them happened to be a firestarter, they gave me that one." said Sorrow. Alice's eyes widened "How.... could they... those bastards." she thought about the "Imperfects" they were the ones who gave into greed, lust for power, so they were imperfect. Sorrow aimed a hand in Itsumi's direction. "You're the kid I've heard so much about? I bet I could kill you with this one fireball." said Sorrow to Itsumi.

This was true, Itsumi wasn't even close to having power like Sorrow's. Sorrow let out a howl. He fell to the ground, having been stabbed by Ema's weapon. "See? When evil people monologue it's the perfect time to strike. Has Television taught you anything?" she said. Sorrow got up and pulled out the dirk. He grabbed Ema's arm and threw her back, far, along with her blade. "Is that the best you guys can do?" he said as he glared at each of them.

Ema flew back and crashed into a tree, she fell on the floor, groaning in pain. "Bastard... he knocked me away like I was nothing..." she stood up, surprisingly. She held her blade up and glared at Sorrow. "Gabriel, Alice, and Itsumi can do it... what's stopping me..?" she thought to herself. Ema stood there and could only watch, she and Lelouch had no increased power, they were stuck with the weak powers they already have.

Sorrow charged at Itsumi, "You can't dodge this!" he yelled as he punched at Itsumi. Itsumi just stood there and Sorrow's punched looked as though it stopped in mid-air. Itsumi grinned, thinking he had beat Sorrow. "Hmph, are you kidding me? You're so weak." said Sorrow as he punched harder and a loud sound, like glass breaking was heard. Itsumi was hit, badly, he flew far back and had been bruised, bleeding at the mouth.

Itsumi had fallen unconscious. Ema still standing there, looked at her blade and saw her reflection. She went invisible, but, as she moved she heard her own footsteps, she was easy to find. Lelouch brought out his scythe and jumped up at Sorrow, who turned and saw Lelouch. Lelouch struck at Sorrow, hoping to hit. Sorrow stood there and aimed an open palm at Lelouch. Sorrow's palm caught on fire and the fire spat out at Lelouch. Lelouch was hit by the fire, thrown back a meter, his right arm was burned. "Dammit..." Lelouch stood up, holding his burnt arm "I need... more power.. more strength.".

Sorrow then turned to Kenji, Gabriel, and Alice. Gabriel looked up at Sorrow and charged at him, katana in hand. The Katana was covered in ice, he attacked at Sorrow. Sorrow covered his hand in flames and disappeared, appearing right in front of Gabriel, he then used all his strength and punched Gabriel right in the face. Gabriel was thrown back, hard by the blow. He was knocked unconscious, bleeding from the nose and mouth.

He then looked at Kenji. Kenji quacked very loud and changed into his huge duck form. Sorrow laughed, "A duck? Really? Wow." he said as punched Kenji straight in the stomach. Kenji reverted to human form and fell down, also knocked unconscious by the blow. "Well, now... to take out the ringleader." said Sorrow "You know, if I knew you guys were this weak, I would've done this ages ago." He glared right at Alice, she pulled out her chakrams and prepared to fight Sorrow.

Alice then saw someone in Sorrow's place. Where he had been standing stood a girl, one with long black hair and black eyes, she wore a red dress and was barefoot. "No... impossible." she thought. Her eyes widened and she turned pale looking as though she had just seen a ghost. She was shaking, "No... I... can't..." she muttered. "What is it, Alice, you realized you can't win?" asked Sorrow.

Sorrow walked up to Alice and laughed "How pathetic you all are in the face of death.". Ema looked, she was shocked, "I can't let Alice die... she helped me! She saved me!" she pulled out her silver blade forced herself, she pushed her invisibility powers as far as possible, she kept going invisible and visible like a flickering light. "ALICE, NO!" she cried as she saw Sorrow approaching Alice. It was at that very moment, that Ema saw herself, in front of Alice.

"But... I'm right here..." she thought. "You again?" said Sorrow "I'll just make sure to kill you this time.". Sorrow aimed a punch at what he thought was Ema, he was suddenly stabbed in the back by another Ema. "What!?" he said as he fell again, he quickly got up to find Alice gone, he was surrounded by dozens of Ema's. The real Ema walked into the circle of copies. "What were you saying about us being pathetic?" she said, mocking Sorrow. Sorrow rose up "I could kill all of you with this little blast." he said with a smirk.

"What makes you think we'll let you?" Lelouch said with a weak voice. He got up and raised his scythe. "This... is for Alice!" he cried, the scythe in Lelouch's hands changed, it had gotten twice as many ribbons, it grew larger, the ribbons were red and the scythe itself was black. Lelouch jumped up in the air, at that time, all the copies of Ema charged at Sorrow and held him down. "Deliver the final blow, Lelouch!" Yelled Ema.

Lelouch was high in the air, he aimed his scythe at Sorrow. He fell fast, and the moment he was five feet above Sorrow, he swung down, hitting Sorrow through the heart, from behind. Sorrow's body caught fire, and it burned and burned as he yelled in pain. "Damn you all to hell!" he said, burning so much, after a few minutes, all that was left was ashes.

Alice saw that past the ashes, Lelouch, Ema, she saw the girl again, walking away. The girl, about Alice's size, turned and smiled, she then walked into a light, and disappeared from Alice's view. Alice smiled as well, after all, they had beaten Sorrow, a high commander. Alice felt the calm, protective feeling sweep over her again. She knew that, they would not be troubled by anything else, for now.

Ruki awoke in the middle of the night, completely unaware that a high ranking commander had just been defeated outside. She sat on the floor and took out her box of cards. "Hmm..." she picked up a card, and examined it "... how can cards that always change, tell the future...? Show me what you see, my cards." as she spoke, the cards floated, and one by one, got of the box, they floated in a circle around her, one by one, cards fell, and landed in a row, while the others stay floating. Ruki flipped over the cards, one by one.

The first card showed a picture of earth, representing the world. The second car showed a blue fire over grass, the next one showed a white rose. The final card that Ruki flipped over, showed two people, carrying blades in hand, glaring at each other on a mountain top. " It's a war, me and Kero, this isn't our battle... I think I should go, along with him." she thought.

At that time, Alice was returning to her bed, tired. She lied down and tried to get some rest, a few minutes later she drifted off. While Alice was sleeping, faint images flashed in her head, then, an image, clear as day appeared in her mind. It showed Alice, wearing a blood stained jacket, and jeans in a bloody field with bodies all-around. Alice opened her eyes and got up, she ran towards Ema's room and knocked, Ema answered, tired.

"Ema, we have to go back, to the beginning." said Alice firmly. Ema nodded and stepped out the door, taking her weapon with her, she was already in her jeans and jacket, neither of them had time to change. Ema and Alice ran out to the street in front of the building. "It's too far, we can't get there on foot." said Ema, "Who said anything about going on foot? I saved a little something from the old days." Alice said with a smirk, she led Ema to a greenhouse near the building. Ema, shocked upon encountering the "Little something from the old days" she, looked and saw a black motorcycle with gold stripes on it. "You... actually kept it?" asked Ema, "Yep." responded Alice.

Alice got onto the motorcycle, Ema got on as well. Alice started it up and drove the motorcycle right through one of the glass windows in the greenhouse. "You really didn't need to do that." said Ema, "Well, I did." said Alice, they drove on for about a half-hour when they got to an old warehouse. "Here we are... again." said Ema. Ruki knocked on Kero's door, he answered, also tired. "We need to go, we can't stay." said Ruki. Kero looked at her strangely "Why?" he asked "... there's going to a battle, one that we're not apart of, we can't get involved." she responded.

Kero reluctantly agreed. Ruki and Kero ran quickly out of the building and headed for the street. "Where will we go?" said Kero. "Anywhere but here. " said Ruki. The image of the white rose appeared in Ruki's head,"No, I can't get involved!" thought Ruki, Kero and Ruki continued to run until they could run no more, they just fell, tired. "Well, well, well, lookie what we have here. Two little, unprotected, runts." said Venus from behind. "Damn!" said Ruki, she had not expected this. Venus laughed as vines from the floor entangled Ruki and Kero, they were trapped. Ruki's vision blurred, and shortly after, she passed out, along with Kero. "Well, this was too easy." said Venus with another laugh.

Alice got off the motorcycle, followed by Ema. They walked up to a rust covered door. Alice pushed the door open. They walked into a huge room only lit by the moonlight coming from the windows. There was a huge metal box in the middle of the room, Alice walked up to it and looked straight into a lock.

"Project AR" said a robotic female voice from inside the crate. Ema did the same as Alice. "Project ER" spoke the voice, and the wall on the side of the box opened up like a garage door. "Wait... how does something as old as this still work? Something's not right." said Alice as she and Ema walked into the box, and there was a staircase going down.

They walked down the staircase, lit by lamps on the walls, the walls looked like polished metal. Now, Alice knew something was wrong ever since the lock worked. They continued down to find six different hall entries all lit by lamps. "Ema, don't you think that something is really, really, wrong here?" asked Alice. "I've noticed it too. How is this place still active?" Ema said.

They walked down the middle hallway and heard a female voice "I've got two of them.". "Venus" thought Alice. Something was very wrong with this situation.

{Yes, The Strangers will not be discontinued any longer. I will still be working on my short stories section and Plague of Blood. Maybe I will even bring Weirdo High back. The point is, my stories are not discontinued any longer.}

Alice sat there for a few minutes until Venus spoke again "It'll take two months, but, it's worth it. Their powers are impressive, just not mastered." Alice instantly thought up a plan in her mind. She had it all pieced together.

"... two months? That's a small amount of time, but at least I know when the best time to strike will be." Ema did not think twice before asking Alice something in a low whisper "I think we should go..." Alice nodded and they both quietly walked back as fast as they can out. As soon as they were out safely, Ema and Alice got onto the motorcycle.

Alice gripped the handles with her hand and started the motorcycle and the motorcycle drove down the hill. While that was going on everyone else was still recovering from Sorrow's battle. Gabriel found himself in an area covered by a mist all around. "... where am I?"

The mist cleared and Gabriel saw what the area was, a room, with peach coloured walls and a carpeted floor. There was a bed in the middle of the room and a black small television with a gray border. The rest of the room was pretty much empty. Gabriel then saw the door open and a little boy with short dark brown hair that covered his eyes come in. The boy was wearing a blue shirt and tan shorts.

The boy dropped a green bookbag onto the floor and walked to the television and turned it on, not noticing Gabriel. A sudden scream came from the room beyond the one they were in. It was a female scream. Gabriel followed the little boy into the next room and Gabriel saw a blonde woman with blue eyes, she was wearing... a blue, no, purple dress, it was purple because of the blood, dripping down from her breast to the floor.

The window was open, wide open. The little boy stood there, in shock of the woman, supposedly his mother's body. The boy fell to his knees as Gabriel, wide-eyed standing like an idiot, did the only thing he though he could do, call the police. Gabriel ran towards the door out of the room when suddenly the door slammed shut! Gabriel turned to see the little boy cry and cry more, the house shook. The windows suddenly closed shut and opened wide. Gabriel reached for the knob and tried to open the door, it wouldn't open. Gabriel didn't know what to do, he was trapped in a room with a dead body and little kid.

Red and Blue lights flashed in the windows. The boy suddenly stopped crying, and knocks and bangs on the doors were heard. A few minutes later after neither Gabriel nor the child did anything, the door was broken down. The boy stood up and turned around with empty eyes facing an officer who had just broken in. The officer aimed a magnum at the boy and said "Alright, down on your knees, now." The boy did not move. Gabriel then yelled "Do what he says, kid!"

The boy only stood there and stared at the police officer. The boy's eyes were as cold and empty as deep space. The officer shot the magnum at the boy and suddenly, the bullet stopped, right in front of the boy's forehead, it was held there, as though an invisible hand kept it in place. The bullet then spun in the air and flew towards the police officer. Gabriel yelled and suddenly found himself in his bed. He rubbed his forehead and looked out the window trying to see if the moon's glow would comfort him.