Let's Survive

泉亜美 Izumi Ami Female | 18 | Tokyo

[thoughtless-toughness]

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It’s a Wednesday, the 4th day since life as Ami knew it ended. She’s alive, but barely. The shelter she has been staying at is running out of supplies. Every day she is confronted with death, both inside and outside the walls of the shelter. That morning when she wakes up to the sound of a fully grown adult crying next to her she can’t take it anymore and leaves the “safety” of the shelter without looking back.

She just wants to go home now, even if it turns out there is no longer a place for her to come home to. As she makes her way through deserted streets, she nervously hovers her thumb above the button that will summon what she has been starting to view as her guardian angel.

Like many others, Ami had signed up for the mysterious dead face delivery site Nicaea out of curiosity. Like few others, she had been able to defeat the demon that had come out of her cell phone as she had been about to die.

Unlike a select group of individuals she doesn’t know of, she hasn’t been using her power and the demon summoning app to fight. Instead, she has only been using the app when her life had been in danger. She would feel bad about that, but in the end she is just a girl trying to survive. 

Lost in thought, she realizes too late that something is amiss. The sounds of shouting and a fierce battle going in the distance come closer so quickly that she has no time to make a run for it. 

She shrieks and loses her balance when suddenly a floating ball of purple appears in front of her. Without a second thought she pushes the button her thumb has been hovering over all this time and a blinding light makes her squeeze her eyes shut tight. When the blinding light of the summoning circle has died out the demon Angel holds her arm out in front of Ami protectively.

“This is too great of a threat, human.” Angel speaks in her heavenly voice, her eyes on the floating ball of purple that now seems to be spinning rapidly in front of them. “Even together we are no match for it. We must--”

Before Angel can do as much as finish her sentence the floating ball of purple get’s hit by what Ami could only describe of an explosion of light. When she dares to open her eyes again, the threat that was in front of them just a moment ago is gone. 

Dumbfounded Ami looks around. Then, in the corner of her eye, she notices a figure standing atop of the remains of a collapse building. There’s a man in a black coat looking down on her and Angel. As she slowly rises from the ground, both men and women in yellow uniform join the man’s side.

Still in shock about what happened just now, Ami just blares the first thing that comes to mind...

“Who are you?!”

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[[I’m bringing Ami back! Any post made after this one will no longer be related to the original character roleplay group Devil Survivor 3. If you would like to RP with me just send me a message and/or like this post!]]

[mi-ma-mo]

I commissioned sensenaoya to draw my child Ami Izumi and I think I’m in love. She looks amazing. I’m so happy. /////

Sen is still taking commissions so check this out! 

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Day 2

Ami slightly narrowed her eyes as she looked up at the sky. It was still there. It being what Ami only could assume to be water, and an awfully lot of it at that. Somehow, the thought of being trapped was far more scary than the demons she had encountered the other day. She just wanted to go home. What had happened to her normal live?

Yearning for her own bed, Ami had said farewell to Niko and parted their ways after leaving the shelter. They barely had escaped death together only yesterday. If Ami hadn't been able to summon that... demon-thingy they never would have made it out alive. She had no idea for how long she had stared at the screen of her cell phone, just slowly taking in the fact that she could summon a demon now. She still barely believed it. 

After an hour or so of walking, Ami couldn't take another step. Her stomach made the loudest noise possible as she leaned against a wall of an abandoned street. As she closed her eyes for a little bit she wonder how Nana was doing, assuming she still was alive of course. Thinking back of what had happened and how Ami had abandoned Nana, made Ami feel ever worse. Nana had to be alive. She just had to!

Ami opened her eyes again when her cell phone received a message. She didn't even take her cell phone out of her pocket to check. Whatever this Nicaea-thingy was, she wanted to have nothing to do with it. A dry laugh escaped her lips as she looked up at the sky again.

"Screw you..."

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Day 1

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With this, there was no other routes of escape. If these monsters had chased them to this point, then they wouldn’t likely give up until their prey were rightfully inside their stomachs. The thought filled the fighter girl with actually much more anger than fear. Niko’s eyes quickly moved from left to right, monitoring each enemy’s movements. Slowly, as not to alarm the beasts, she let go of the girl behind her and brought both hands clenched in fists before herself. Her mouth was kept completely shut, breathing only from her nose.

Catching the first muscle twitch in the first attacker, Niko gave a push at the delicate girl with her back before launching herself forward to the enemy. With a little bit of chance, the other girl would finally catch on and run for her life instead of dwelling in a death trap. Niko couldn’t care less about herself, now that she had taken a very short time to do a before-death introspection. The second beast lunged at her and she only dodged at the very last moment to save her the effort of closing the distance between them by herself. Her punch landed on the side of the beast’s arm to divert the attack. ‘Too far,’ she had intended to aim for the elbow joint but at the very least, she succeeded in dodging that one. It was a beginner’s mistake to not taking into account the length of the demon’s limbs which were almost twice as long as a regular man.

It wasn’t much the right time to think about life and death when envisioning the professional competition matches she secretly studied behind her parents’ back could prove to be much more useful. Then again, it wasn’t the right time to think about her small attempts at deviance either. It was a funny realization for her, knowing that she didn’t mind dying, but that she minded the possibility of these monsters not dying before her.

Her weight shifted from one light foot to another, her way of feinting in front of the enemy. Once the two before her had their attention wrongly pulled to her fists, Niko scored a kick to their calves strong enough to throw them off balance. When another attack came at her, the girl evaded to the side and it was when she took a moment to look at the scene at the distance that she realized her grave mistake. One, two... The third demon that had evaded her had the blond girl within grasp. Frustratingly, all this was now too far from Niko’s reach. She didn’t know who to direct her anger at anymore. Was it to the demons who tried to kill her or was it to this girl who only moved an inch when she pushed her earlier?

"Behind you!" Niko screamed out to the other, though the same was applicable to her. In a moment of distraction, a blunt weapon struck her to the ground, a move of vengeance from the demons’ part. She could get back up, she could, but what she couldn’t do was leaving the blond girl from sight. Don’t die, don’t die, don’t die…

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Ami narrowed his eyes slightly, adjusting the amount of blinding light form her cell phone screen that way. The same question was still displaced at the screen, the words die and live beneath it. 

     ”Do you wish to live?” 

She swallowed slowly, repeating the question a few times inside her head. It wasn't the first time she had thought about this question. Right after her parents had divorced she had wanted nothing more than to vanish, to feel nothing, to just be gone. Despite everything, she had lived through that. When things had been difficult she hadn't given up. This time... This time too she wouldn't give up.

She reached for her cell phone and chose the only right option. She chose to live. Suddenly the mascot of Nicaea spoke again. 

     "You chose to live!"           "The Demon Summoning App has now been downloaded."                "Good luck~☆"

As if to have awoken from a nightmare, Ami's eyes flew wide open. The back of her head hurt an awful lot, but that wasn't her top concern for now. Her sight was still a little blurry and it was hard to focus on her surrounding, but there was one thing she had come aware of the moment she had opened her eyes again.

The lady who had tried so hard to protect her was laying on the ground, not moving in the slightest. The monsters were gathered around her and seemed ready to strike, to give the last blow. Knowing that it couldn't end like this, Ami somehow found the power to get up and ran towards the other in a last attempt to save her. 

"Get away from her!" Ami screamed at the top of her lungs. She had no plan, she had nothing except for the cell phone in her grasp which she thought to had dropped before, but that didn't stop her from moving forward. Nobody was going to die for her sake anymore!

Suddenly, a bright blue light appeared and Ami felt a weird sensation in her arm. The demons which had been about to strike stopped midway and turned their heads towards the light. When the light died out the shape of a little girl got recognizable. Well, little girl? Just one glance was enough to see this was no human. Somehow her long purple hair served as wings. As if that wasn't odd enough, ice appeared out of nowhere when she raised her hand. Ami watched in terror as the ice pierced one of the monsters. 

There was no time to think about how this could be happening or why the little girl wasn't attacking her. Ami had to get to the lady and get them both out of here right now. As she ran the last bit of distance, more ice appeared and pierced the monsters. The mosters were still very alive, but they turned all of the attention to the little girl now. Ami didn't watch as a fight between the monsters and the little girl started. She only had eyes for one person at that moment. 

When Ami arrived at the lady, she dropped to the ground and roughly shook the other's shoulder in an attempt to get a reaction out of her. "Please, wake up! We've got to go. We don't have a lot of time! Please..."

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Day 1

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"Good at sword fightin’?" Nana repeated. “Well, I’ve whacked people more than a few times wit’ it, and I was on the Kendo team at school before they kicked me out for missin’ a few too many practices, and I’ve watched enough samurai flicks t’ get a basic feel for how t’ use it so… yeah, I guess you’d say I’m pretty good at it!"

But then she stopped talking and she stopped walking, and she swung the sword off of her shoulder. She stared at the alleyway they’d just passed by and narrowed her eyes.

"Blondie," Nana said. “When I give the signal, run. Don’t say nothin’. Don’t try t’ fight em or nothin’. Run as fast as ya can down this street. It’ll take ya all the way t’ Shiba. Don’t worry ‘bout a thing."

The beasts’ snarls would be heard before they stepped out of the alley, drool dripping from their open mouths and onto their paws. From how it steamed as it hit the ground, Nana was fairly sure it was acidic. The obscenely spiked collars and the chains trailing from a clasp on said collars told her that these dog monsters belonged to someone, someone who really needed to keep their pets tied down before they ate anyone.

They snarled and murmured among themselves in voices Nana couldn’t hear as they approached, until finally the lead dog’s mouth began to flicker with the light of a fire from its stomach.

"RUN!"

She dashed to the side and a fireball flew right at and exploded at the spot Nana had been only moments before. Her heart hammered in her ears. Four dog monsters who could breathe fire. Did that constitute a pack? She didn’t know. All she knew was that she needed to run before any of them could catch up with her or she was going to die here.

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That was actually very impressing. Ami never would have thought Nana would be a good sword fighter just by her looks. If it wasn't for the sword on her back, Ami never ever would have thought of the possibility. Again prove that looks could deceive. 

Just as she was about to compliment Nana on that, the sword fighter suddenly stopped walking. In the blink of an eye, Nana had swung her sword off her shoulder. Worried, Ami followed Nana's gaze. Was there something in that alleyway? 

"What's the--" Ami got cut off by the other. Her stomach turned to ice as Nana told her to make a run for it. "W-What are you saying? I must have misunderstood... What's wrong? H-Hey..."

Terror held Ami like a vice-like grip when her eyes could make out the shapes of enormous dogs in the shadow's of the alleyway. Those things growled and snarled as they approached Nana and Ami slowly. Ami barely suppressed a scream as those beasts made it into the dim sunlight. They were horrific monsters: beasts from hell! To Ami's surprise she hadn't fainted by seeing such a sight. Instead her heart was racing, telling her whole body to make a run for it. She knew that if she wouldn't move know she would be dead. 

That's why she didn't hesitated when Nana gave the signal. She just had to run. Guilt should have struck her in her chest (how could she run away with someone else risking their lives-- no, sacrificing themselves for her?!) but she didn't even look over her shoulder. She just kept running down the street which would lead her to safety.

When her legs no longer could take her any further she stopped and leaned against a wall. Suddenly fully realizing what she had done, she covered her mouth and tried to held back tears. She had abounded Nana. She had just left here to die there!

Ami's whole body trembled violently, causing her to slide down against the wall. She hated herself. If Nana died it would all be her fault! Ami shook her head slowly, denying the possibility of Nana not making it. Ami couldn't let herself think like that. She just had to believe in her sword fighter.

"Nana... Please be save....."

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Day 1

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Nana continued marching, attempting to ignore the continued prickling of the hairs on the back of her neck and the goosebumps rising on her arms as she walked. There was something coming, stalking them probably. Something inhuman. She could taste it on the humid air, and she knew that she needed to get Ami out of here, and fast. But she needed to keep the girl calm too, because it didn’t do anyone any good if they started breaking down in the middle of the crisis.

"Cult?" Nana looked over her shoulder back at Ami. “Naww. You don’t find a lotta guys or girls like me out there. I mean, there’s other history geeks, but they always romanticize things waaay too much and treat samurai and daimyo like these gods who can’t do nothin’ bad and they’re always super nationalistic ‘bout it too, y’know?"

She turned back toward the road. “I’m all about learnin’ ‘bout the history and usin’ it as a guidepath for the future ‘n’ all that. Plus, it’s just damn cool! Samurai are pretty damn cool too. And that’s why I carry this sword." She chuckled. “It’s just made o’ wood, though. Ain’t good for much aside from whackin’ things."

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Ami nodded slowly, pretending to know what Nana was talking about. She was listening of course, but because her knowledge about samurais was rather limited and because Nana's accent was had to follow at times Ami started wondering if maybe it would have better to not have asked her anything. Fortunately, there was one thing she had understood. 

"Yes, samurai is pretty cool! If I could handle a sword like them that would be so neat. Are you good at sword fighting?" Ami asked, ignoring her stomach. She was feeling nauseous all of a sudden, but now was not the time to throw up. Asking Nana about her fighting skills was more important right now. If they wanted to stay save until the arrived at Shiba Park they better know each other's capabilities.

"I can't do much when it comes to fighting, but I could always try to be a distraction..." Meaning she could always turn into lunch for demons if there was no hope left. Naturally, she didn't hope it would ever come to that. 

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Death Clip: Kasuga Ichiro

Ami almost jumped when her cell phone rang. The sound only lasted for a few seconds, which could only mean she had received a message. Her hands were shaking as she took her cell phone out of her pocket. She tried not to think of how she had received a message without a signal when she flipped it open. She took a deep breath before opening the message. 

When she shut her cell phone again, all the color had left her face. Her small frame was shaking as she realized what she just had witnessed. That had been a Dead Clip. Just now she had watched a total stranger die.

"Y-You... You've got to be kidding me... Why w-would anyone send me this? I don't even know this person!" she cried out, trying to blink the tears forming in the corners of her eyes away. "That's too cruel. Showing me something like this..."

Ami felt completely hopeless. She didn't even have someone at her side to try and calm her down. Did this mean this person called Kasuga Ichiro really was going to die? If Ami wasn't going to do anything, was that person really done for? The message had said it was up to her whether he was going live of die. If she wanted to have a chance of saving him she should be on the move that very moment, but instead she was frozen to the spot. 

"I can't move," she whimpered softly, a single tear rolling down her face. "Disgusting..."

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Day 1

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Nana stared at Ami, frowned, and then put a hand on the top of Ami’s hung head and ruffled her hair a bit. “Don’t worry ‘bout it! What kinda person would I be if I just let a buddy sit out here in the rain? And I’m headin’ that way anyways, so it ain’t like it’s a big deal." That last part was a lie; Shiba was in the opposite direction from the wall of water, but she didn’t need to let Ami know that, not right now anyways.

She lifted her hand from Ami’s head and spun around. “Right! So, Shiba Park is… thattaway!" She pointed her sword out in the direction of a road. “So what we aughta do is… start marchin’!"

And they needed to start moving soon, too, because Nana was suddenly getting a bad feeling, like all of the hairs on the back of her neck had stood up at once. She began marching in a showsman-like manner down the sidewalk, looking over her shoulder to make sure Ami was following.

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Ami blinked a few times before giving Nana a slightly confused look. They barely knew each other, yet Nana hadn't hesitated to put her hand on Ami's head and ruffle it a bit like you would do with a little child. Was Ami really giving such a helpless impression that she had to be comforted like that? How sad...

"Are you sure...?" Ami said softly as she watched Nana point her sword. Where was she getting all the energy from in a situation like this? Ami had to admire that. "If you also need to go that way it's alright...... I suppose."

Although Nana had said assured her it was fine, Ami still had her doubts. And how couldn't she? Relying on others, she hated it, but more than that she hated not being able to take care of herself. The moment they would arrive at Shiba Park and they would more or less have figured out what was going on, Ami would go back to doing everything herself immediately. Things couldn't go on like this. 

Ami silently followed the other's lead. Nana's weird walk made a small smile appear on Ami's face for a moment, but disappeared as quickly as quickly as it had appeared. When Nana gave a look over her shoulder, Ami took a little sprint so she could walk next to her. In an attempt to lighten the heavy atmosphere Ami opened her mouth. "I see you're walking around with a sword... Don't tell me you're part of some kind of samurai cult! If those things even exist, haha."

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Day 1

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Nana put a finger to her mouth. “Hrrrm… In a case like this, we should probs head to Shiba Park. It’s usually used as an evacuation center durin’ disasters, anyways." Not that it would do much good in this case. She was pretty damn sure that the whole SDF was floating belly up out there. Along with everyone else.

Damn, that was a sobering thought. Hopefully she was wrong.

"Well, I’ve got somethin’ I’d like t’ go do, but I think it’s my responsibility t’ at least see ya to Shiba Park, y’know?" she said with a grin. Finding her mother could wait for a moment. And she didn’t even know how far out she could go before hitting the wall of water or running into one of those monsters Ami had mentioned.

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Despite their situation, Nana seemed to have everything under control and even sounded somewhat carefree. Maybe it was just her accent which made her sound like she had nothing to worry about? Either way, Ami was glad to hear she wasn't going to be left alone yet.

"Alright so... we're heading for Shiba Park," she said, suddenly feeling like a little lost child who has to rely on the help of a stranger to get her back to her mommy. "T-Thank you for staying with me. It means a lot."

Ami hung her head. She really didn't want to rely on the kindness of others, but in this kind of situation she wasn't given any other choice. Until she had figured out what was going on she needed someone to tell her things were going to be alright even if that was a lie. "Really... Thank you......"

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Day 1

[kicktoxin-blog]

It took longer for Niko to react to what the other just said. The two of them should have been focusing on running for their lives, but here she was, finding herself completely confused at something so illogical.

“Are you seriously saying that at a time like this?” Running through this terrible terrain was already a hard task in itself and it became even more so when the other girl was starting to pull back from her. The demons could catch up to them anytime soon, so it was outrageous to waste their breaths on something so trivial. Buying time so she alone could escape… Ridiculous. ”C’mon, get your—”

A loud thud. 

Without being given time to even curse their dire situation, it was as if everything froze for them and within a split second, all that the two girls could do was watch a large shadow move over them and what followed were the beasts so suddenly landing and obstructing their paths. Niko quickly grabbed the other’s arm and pulled her behind herself. One… two… three. All three demons were there. In the absolutely worst case, she could try to… fight. 

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Ami had asked so kindly, but it looked like the other wasn't even thinking of letter her go. As heroic as that was, Ami couldn't let herself become a burden for someone else. She tried to pull her arm free of the other's grip but the woman was just far too strong for her. Despite that, there was no way this stranger would be stronger than those demons. Damn it, why did Ami have to drag someone else into this mess?!

"L-Listen! You really should let me go, because I can--" Ami cut her own sentence off. The reason this was so frustrating was because there was actually nothing she could do to save either herself or the other. Ami hated this. She didn't want to count on anyone else but herself! 

It was then that she noticed the danger up ahead, but it was already too late. Before she could even scream a warning, they found themselves surrounded by those monsters again. The woman, protective as she was, pulled Ami behind herself. Ami felt all the color leave her face when she realized she was letting someone else become a shield of flesh. 

She crushed. Was she then really good for nothing?! There had to be something she could do, anything. Desperate for some kind of weapon, she went through her pocket, but the only thing she found was her mobile. It would have been too fortunate if she happened to have a pocket knife with her, of course. Thinking she could at least use her mobile as a hard object to throw at those monsters, she took her mobile out of her pocket, but out of habit she flipped it open. 

Before her eyes could scan the screen, something hard hit her head. It must have been one of those monster, perhaps one they hadn't seen coming from behind. However, it didn't matter because everything had went black for Ami already anyway. The last thing she heard was the sound of her mobile hitting the ground. 

For some time, everything stayed black. Just as Ami started wondering if she had died and if this was death, the screen of her mobile light up in the darkness. There she saw what seemed to be the mascot of that Nicea site and it seemed to be... talking to her...?

     "Thank you for signing up for Nicaea!"            "At this rate you're going to die..."                "But if you would like you can be given one more chance!☆"

     "Do you wish to live?" 

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Day 1

[kicktoxin-blog]

Niko was at lost. Her country had a record of natural disasters, but a tragedy of this level was unprecedented. She recalled the exercises she did as a child to prepare against earthquakes… but what was she to do in this flood? Against those demons? She was walking quite a distance, but she had yet to find anyone, any kind soul, who could tell her what to do. For the moment, all she could manage was to avoid falling into the water or being caught by any of these monsters.

It was then that she heard a voice. A shriek. Frantically, the girl scanned all around her, hoping to catch that voice again, but all there were were beast-like growls ringing through the air. Against her better judgement, Niko carefully moved towards the foul source.

And there she was, the blonde girl from earlier today. Against the girl’s futile provocation, the demon suddenly raised its mace up high, which fired a signal for Niko, the observer, to jump into the scene. Almost as if acting on reflex alone, she dashed forward and threw a kick up high, aiming at the monster’s arm. Having lost its momentum, the weapon failed to hit its target. As the beast and its kind wouldn’t forgive the two humans so easily, Niko changed her course and quickly grabbed the other girl by the arm to flee from the scene. She didn’t care if the other wasn’t ready or if she would have to drag her on the ground, anything would be much rather than seeing more human blood spread out to warm the cold hard ground.

“Dammit, what were you doing?!” Niko called out angrily.

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Ami needed time to process what just had happened. One of those monsters had been ready to attack her, but then... This person, this stranger she had met not even that long again, had saved her. Ami was still breathing. She was still alive! 

She hadn't much time to be happy about that, because while running away the other got mad at her. Most likely she deserved getting such a treatment after almost getting herself killed, yet she couldn't help but feel a little hurt by those words.

"I'm really sorry! It's just t-that..." Ami said, her voice shaking. This was bad. Now that she had been saved she felt the fear of being killed again. "Y-You shouldn't have come to save me. Now they are after us both!"

Because she was this weak she had dragged someone else in the mess. It wasn't her fault that those monsters had appeared, but if this person would die now it would be Ami's fault. She had to stop this. 

"Let me go! I can by you some time! P-Please."

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Day 1

She was trapped. The moment Ami realized that, she felt like she was already dead. Those things, those monsters, loomed over her. She had seen them before, but now that she was able to have a look at them from nearby she knew for sure this was the end. Those things were beasts. The only things which made them slightly come across as human were the bats inside their hairy claws and the fact that they were walking on their hind legs.

There were three of them in total. Ami thought there had been more of them casing her, but maybe that had only been her imagination. Three of those monsters or a hundred of them, it didn't matter. She was done for anyway. She had nowhere left to run and she had lost sight of that girl Nana long ago. Ami just hoped Nana would be save. At least she should be save.

"S-Stay away!" Ami cried out as those monsters surrounded her. "I'm warning you! Don't... Don't come any closer!"

This was it then. She had told herself she wouldn't die today, not because of those creatures or the absence of warm sunlight, but the situation she had found herself into now was hopeless. At the very least she would struggle until the very end. Even if it was more than clear she was going to die here, she wouldn't go without having tried to stay alive. 

"Take this!" In the blink of an eye Ami had snatched a stone the size of her hand from the ground and thrown it at one the heads of one of those beasts. Only when the beast growled she realized how bad of an idea that had been. They were angry now, alright. She was dead. "I'm sorry... Mom."

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Day 1

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Alright, she’d managed to get her calm! Or at least calmer, and that was the important part. Now Nana just needed to find out if the monsters were real, which she couldn’t accomplish until this girl was either completely calm or the monsters found them instead. Whichever came first. Both options had potential to end incredibly gorily.

“Are ya kiddin’? We’re meetin’ each other! No matter what the circumstance, it’s always time for an introduction!” Nana said. “I’m Nana Samurakami!” She threw her hand out for Ami to shake, only to lower it when Ami mentioned that her feet were killing her.

“Oh, damn, yeah, let’s find ya somewhere t’ sit. Hrrm…” She looked around, but only saw the metal barrier she’d been sitting on earlier. “If ya don’t mind a cold ass and don’t mind movin’ when someone brings their bike along, ya can use this?”

Yeah, no. They probably needed to find something real to sit on, like a bus stop bench or a planter edge or something.

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Nana Samurakami, eh? Ami wasn't very good with names, let alone long Japanese ones, but luckily she could recall this girl's name by thinking of the word for seven. Seven Shades of Green should be good enough of a line to remember the name by.

"I'm afraid that won't do. I better find myself a bench to sit on..." Ami mumbled more to herself than to Nana. She looked around again, but this time she wasn't looking for those monster but for a place to sit. It didn't look like there was anything suitable nearby so she would have to start walking again. Would she have to go on her own?

"Is this where we part or...? I'm sorry, I don't intend to come of as rude. It's just that.....  I don't want to trouble you. Of course you're welcome to come along, but..... Whatever you like."

If she was honest she would like the company of Nana, or pretty much anyone else, now. She still had no clue what was going on and having an extra pair of eyes looking out for danger certainly would come in handy. Maybe after finding a place to sit they could discuss where to go next. Ami's home was a no-no, that was for sure, but there was a chance Nana knew a save place. 

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Day 1

[ladybanchou-blog]

Okay, so this person who was freaking out was really freaking out. She was babbling something about monsters, which considering their situation wasn’t really all that unlikely, but Nana really didn’t get a chance to say anything before the girl grabbed her by the wrist and started pulling her along. She was surprisingly strong and managed to tug Nana a fair distance before she ground her heels into the ground and stopped herself.

“Woah, woah, woah!” Nana tripped forward as she worked on regaining her balance, but eventually managed to do so. “Hang on a minute! If there are monsters out there, what makes ya think that runnin’s gonna do anythin’ t’ help? Monsters can smell fear, don’tcha know? Let’s stand here and take some deep breaths, and if they start comin’, then we can run, alright?”

She was talking out of her ass for the most part. But she did need to get that girl calm. If this was a disaster situation (there wasn’t really an if about it; it pretty clearly was), if they really were underwater, if there really were monsters out there, then they had to keep themselves calm. Panic lead to more panic and bad decisions and that was something they did not need right now.

[thoughtless-toughness]

This stranger was right. Panicking wasn't going to do any good. Ami had to keep it together! Even if all of this seemed like a really bad dream she had to stay calm and focused. She had no idea what was going on, but she was certain of one thing. There was no way she was going to get herself killed today. At all costs she had to survive!

"Y-Yes... I'm sorry. You're right. It's just that..." Ami nervously looked around her, searching for those monsters while trying to think of the right words. It looked like they weren't in danger, at least for now. "I'm really sorry, I have no idea what came over me......... This probably isn't the best time for an introduction, but this may be the only time. My name is Izumi Ami. Nice meeting you. I would have preferred to meet you in a different kind of situation, though."

Ami's lips formed a little, failing smile after to have spoken these words. This kind of meeting was just sad, really. But she had to cheer up. All this mess wasn't the fault of this girl so there was no need to make her feel bad about it. "Phew, looks like we're save for now. Ugh, I need to sit down. My feet are killing me."

[thoughtless-toughness]

Day 1

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A dark bedroom. No electricity. The beeping of a cell phone alarm. Her morning had been muddled, unclear, but something had clearly been wrong. Why had it been so chilly? It was the middle of summer; not even the mornings should have been that cold. Why was it so dark? Was there a blackout?

It was strange and different and Nana’s instincts told her that something was very wrong. She’d grabbed her wooden sword and walked out of her apartment, not even leaving a note for her mother.

She’d squinted up at the sky, at the darkness, and at the trickling of light she could see through what was above. The way the light bent and moved, it was like they were—

But that’s impossible, she thought to herself. She felt around for something to sit on and found a metal barrier, one meant for bicycles to be chained to. She collapsed onto it and held her sword in her lap. “Impossible,” she repeated. “Ain’t enough in the whole world for us to be…”

She wasn’t sure how long she had been sitting there when someone came running up the street swearing and yelling to themselves. Nana hopped off of the barrier and walked toward the girl.

“Hey, hey, it’s okay,” she said, feeling quite foolish as she did so. “What’s goin’ on? What’re you runnin’ from?

[thoughtless-toughness]

Thank God, it was a person. An actual person. Not like any of those things which had been chasing her, or were still chasing? She didn't have time to look back, but now that she had been approached by a stranger she stopped running. 

"Y-You..." Ami mumbled, her voice trembling. "You shouldn't stay here! It's dangerous. There are those things. T-Those... monsters! You must think I'm mental, but...... Please, you've got to believe me! We've got to run or--"

There was no time to explain and the fear welling up inside Ami chest got the better of her. They had to go, now. Without any hesitation, she grabbed the stranger's hand and started pulling her along as she ran away. They had to find a save place, a shelter of some sort. Everything happening now was just so unreal, but Ami just had the feeling that if she wouldn't act now it would be the end of her. 

[thoughtless-toughness]

Day 1

This had to be a nightmare. This couldn't be anything else but a nightmare. Ami made herself believe that soon enough she would wake up, breathing heavily and feeling cold sweat run down her back. She had had nightmares before. This was anything new. Except there was this one big difference from her normal nightmares.

She couldn't wake up.

"Godverdomme!" Ami cursed as she pinched her arm hard enough to almost draw blood. "I've got to wake up already! First the sky gets swallowed up by darkness and now I'm beginning to see those-- Those horrific things!" Tears were starting to well up in the corners of her eyes as she left go off her arm and once more had a look at the sky. Her eyes had to be betraying her. There was just no way what she was seeing now was real. Where the sky should have been was only darkness made out of the darkest shades of blue. If she wasn't looking at thunderclouds then just what was hanging about her head?!

"I should have stayed home. I knew I should have stayed home! I just want to go home, but now--" Those things were blocking her path. She wasn't sure what those things were or why they were here, but the moment one of those things had laid his eyes on her instincts had kicked in and she had ran away faster than should have been possible on her high heels. "Just what is going on?! Everything... Everything is so fucked!"