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Nightshift 45: Main Hallway, 1-East

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Sean kept charging down the hallway, not pausing to see if Schuldig was still following them or not. At this point, his priority was getting both himself and Chris to safety as soon as humanly possible. Fortunately soccer practice had done something besides give him bumps, bruises, and skinned knees--he could run for a decent amount of time at a swift clip.

"Let's try the doctor's offices!" Sean replied. Maybe one of them would be unlocked and they could hide in there until someone found them. At this point, getting in trouble was better than facing Schuldig.

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Still following not that he really had much choice, all Chris could do was agree. "A-all right!"

He could feel his heart pounding in his chest and all he could think about was how the doctors and nurses told him to not exert himself again, lest he make himself sick. He could remember being hurt by other patients and falling over railings while out at night and he didn't want either of them to be hurt like that again. Maybe things wouldn't be so ban in an office? And maybe Chris could convince Sean that they really should go back to their room.

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"What exactly is Innocence, that these Akuma want to destroy it so?" she questioned as they entered the part of the hall where there were fewer patients. Hime's flashlight glided about, a single beam in the darkness that failed to illuminate the darker reaches. It didn't look like anything was lying in wait for them, but then, it wouldn't be much of an ambush if she could spot them so easily.

"I'm certainly from another world, in a variety of meanings," she said with a knowing chuckle. "I highly doubt my knowledge is so meager that I'd be unaware of these Akuma or Innocence if I was from your world. Nor am I from the world of this institute, at least I don't think. And even in the world I come from, I am from another world, the Kingdom. Currently, however, at least before I was spirited away to this location anyway, I was living in Sasanaki City, a small town in the country of Japan."

What sort of world did Allen come from? Or for that matter, Teresa? The subject of their previous conversation had been the inhabitants, not the country itself.

The question Hime asked, Teresa wanted to know the answer to as well. She was mildly pleased that she didn't have to inquire herself. There was one boon to having the girl there; she was certainly curious and had no qualms asking questions no matter how they might be received. This left Teresa to listen and pay more attention to their surroundings without appearing to. For all any onlooker could tell, the hybrid was just out for an evening stroll given how relaxed she was.

These Akuma, though, sounded suspiciously like youma. Perhaps the boy's weapon had been soaked in their blood enough to take some of it into itself. That would explain the energy.

"It would seem that it is far less likely to find someone who is from this land than one of whom is not."

"Innocence was used a long time ago by people who fought against the Millennium Earl. The world was destroyed by a flood right after, and only Noah and his family survived. But the Innocence was broken into pieces and scattered. The Millennium Earl wants to destroy the world, and the only way to fight him, and the Akuma he creates, is with Innocence. It's not all the same, though. It takes different forms. Only certain people can use it, though, not everyone can."

He wondered how this all sounded to someone from another world. He wondered how it would sound to him if he was anyone but who he was. But he'd had this left arm his whole life, and he'd been cursed by the Akuma when he was ten, almost six years ago now. He couldn't imagine anything else.

"What is it like, then, where you're from, Hime? Or you, Teresa?" The other woman hadn't really said much, so he wanted to involve her, too. There was no sense in anyone being a third wheel, after all!

"Hime, you said that there are golems shaped like men, right? I guess I really didn't understand. I've never heard of other worlds or anything like this. From what I learned, maybe no one is from this world, and it's like some in-between place, since they gathered people here? But I don't know if that's really possible either."

Millennium Earl, the one who created the Akuma? Akuma which Allen likened to man-shaped golems. So rather than demons, these were constructs (of a demonic nature, though). And Innocence was the weapon to fight them. It would make sense they would want to destroy it. Hime filed away all this information on a war she would likely never see.

"I'd say it's a normal town, but not only would that be a lie, it would hold no meaning, seeing as how 'normal' is a relative term," the Royal admitted. "The local hospital is run by a vampire, there are two princesses living in the hills and it's not unusual to see a werewolf biking around with a dead boy. Not that anyone would know it by looking at them." A chuckle. "Well, on the surface, at least, it appears as a modern Japanese city in the world known as 'Earth'." If he was from a completely different world, the way it sounded like Teresa was, then this might mean nothing, but if he was from some alternate version of Earth, as some patients seemed to be, it would serve as a point of reference and make explanations that much easier. Not that she hadn't thrown in some unnecessary descriptions that would only serve to complicate matters.

"This place does seem to be a hub of realities, but its basis seems to be in Earth, modern day America it would seem," she noted. "Though that could just be a model; I wonder what it's really like beyond these walls and the town where they let us visit.

"I am from a land surrounded by water that takes approximately a week to cross on foot. The land is divided into forty-seven sections with the Organization in the center. Before coming here, the only building of this magnitude I had ever laid eyes upon was a cathedral and metal is a precious commodity," Teresa replied. "Humans of all classes are plagued by youma, demonic beings that hide behind human faces and feed on human flesh."

Teresa had never bothered to find out if the land had a specific name. It simply hadn't been important. "There is a land on the horizon across the waters, but I have never been there."

Allen wondered what Hime meant by "modern." After all, there were plenty of modernized places where he was from. London had plenty of steam-power, after all. The newer golems could record much more than the older ones. None of them were like Timcampy, of course, but Tim was different.

"I've never been to America," Allen said, "and I've never seen a werewolf. I know someone that people call 'vampire' but he doesn't drink human blood or anything. He just kind of looks creepy."

He looked at Teresa. Youma sounded similar to Akuma, only, Akuma didn't eat people. That sounded awful! Akuma could spread the virus and kill people, or they could actually attack, but eating people!

"Your world sounds really different, Teresa," he said after a minute.

It seemed her suspicion was correct; Allen was from some form of Earth, one that at least had the same kinds of supernatural beings, or at least stories of them, as the world Hime knew. This would make it easier to speak with him about various monsters.

Teresa, on the other hand, sounded to be from a more and more distant world the more Hime learned about her. She wasn't sure if one could cross Australia on foot in a week - perhaps the half-demon could - but even if she were from the southern continent, it sounded to be from a time in the distant past - for all that and the other differences, even if she was from some form of Earth it might as well have been a completely different world.

Idly, she wondered what the warrior would think of computers.

"Humans aren't the only animals with blood to drink," said Hime darkly as she turned the corner.

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"Try not to let one get caught in your hair," Teresa said to Hime as they turned down the hallway on their way back to the central area of the barracks.

"I may just have to laugh." It was an entertaining thought.

Allen smiled back at Hime. She wasn't really so bad, she was just a little bossy. He could handle that. Most people had a reason they acted the way they did. Except maybe Kanda, and the Noah. Although the Noah seemed to think there was some reason, but he had to disagree with that. They were misled.

He resolved not to think about them right now.

"We can handle a few bats, can't we?" he said, cheerfully enough.

Hime gave a small chuckle at the comment; it seemed the tall warrior did have a sense of humor, as hinted at before with some of her comments. That was good to know.

"I certainly hope we can," she said in response to Allen. "It would be sad day indeed when a Royal is felled by mere mice with wings."

Hopefully when Teresa said "engorged" she meant merely large, less than a meter. If they were like the monstrous spider-bats that had almost killed Sherwood, then they might be in for a bit harder of a time.

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"So, from here we could go up," Yuuko observed, motioning vaguely toward the stairs. That door should be the stairs, right? Even if she couldn't trust the map she'd seen it was still the same as the stairwell on the other side and it did make sense.

Then she turned the other direction, pointing her flashlight in the direction of the hallway to their left. "Or out. That way is the greenhouse. Or the doctors' offices, but those won't go outside."

Rick paused, debating. The smart thing to do was to head right for the stairs but thinking this through, maybe he shouldn't go anywhere without any files on him. At the very least, he wanted to know how close he'd been to getting outta here, if only so he could use it as evidence to wave around in front of Matt's face and prod his brother into moving too. Rick glanced toward the doctor offices.

"Quick detour? Wanna see what my doctor had on me before we keep going."

His doctor? Yuuko couldn't recall seeing a doctor at all since arriving here, and had to wonder how he'd managed to get so fortunate. Still, though, it all seemed to be working out one way or another, so maybe she shouldn't complain.

The fact that he wanted to know what information his doctor "had on him" kind of made her wonder about the guy a little, but, well, it probably wasn't any of her concern. Whoever and whatever they might be outside of the Institute, in here they were all just patients trying to get better. "Sure...why not?" She grinned and shrugged a little, attempting to force herself to forget all the worries nagging at her. "I had no other plans for the night."

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No sign of Green.

So far, so good. Last thing they needed was some crazy chick gunning for them just 'cause she didn't like the way they looked or something.

But there was also no sign of the nurses or orderlies, no Martin Landel, and the power was still out, his flashlight pretty much the only thing keeping them from being smacking into walls or each other. And while he wouldn't have minded fooling around in the dark, the place possibly being on fire or something kinda killed his mojo there before he really could give it any second thoughts. They kinda had bigger priorities here.

"I was thinking the same thing," Yuuko agreed, though a little reluctantly. The oddness of everything around them was something she'd been resolutely trying to ignore ever since leaving her room. "It's like all the staff left after dinner, or something." Except...well, if that intercom announcement was correct, the Head Doctor was still around somewhere. If she hadn't imagined that, too.

It nagged at her, though, in ways she didn't want to consider. Was it possible that she hadn't been imagining what happened at night? No. No, it wasn't. That would call too many other things into question, and she knew who she was and what she needed to do and none of it involved that imaginary life. She suppressed a shudder and just moved onward.

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The halls were getting quiet. Harley wasn't sure if this was a good or bad thing. Why were there no people here? Was everyone just busy somewhere else or had something chased them all off? That thought made her focus a bit more on her surroundings. That's right! She couldn't let her guard down. There were things wandering around. If she wasn't careful, she might get snatched up before she even finished her shopping spree. And that probably wouldn't be very much fun.

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Edited 2009-12-11 05:07 (UTC)

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