While Tenshi continued to sit on the floor in front of the large crystal clear lake with his own wings wrapped around himself. He simply stared off into the distance, wondering and thinking of what he was going to have to do with his life now. Especially since he had lost his last family, if he were to ever truly escape this world; he knew he'd be leaving it alone rather than with Yukito from how it was when he came here. A quiet little sigh escaped his lips, as he slowly began to stare downwards toward his new shoes that had come with the suit-like outfit that came with his new wings and figure. This new outfit truly was comfortable, although Tenshi was never really a fan of wearing suits even when he was still living in the reality world. However, strangely enough this suit felt much more comfortable causing him not to really mind it at all. While he stared downwards, Tenshi hadn't realized that the fox-like female; Vixen had made her way toward him as well due to his own sulking. Immediately however, when he had caught to sound of a female clearing her throat; he slowly lifted his own head up, only to turn it slightly to the side to see that Vixen had made her way here. At first, seeing her had caused a bit of shock to appear on Tenshi's own face as he wasn't exactly expecting her to come here. The expression soon faded back toward a slightly calm one as he took his attention back toward the lake. "Oh...hello...Vixen, was it?" he asked, trying to remember the names of everyone in the group that he had met. He hadn't exactly spoken to any of them much, so learning their names wasn't really easy. "What brings you here..?" his tone of voice quiet, almost as though it was a whisper; although it was also filled much with sadness even though it sounded like there was no emotion sent through the words. Right after, hearing the announcer call out that another person had joined The Room; Tenshi completely remained silent about the newcomer but had already made sure to take notice of it.

Shin on the other hand at this time had noticed how the two females; the dog-like girl as well as the snake had left the area right before he was able to capture them within his illusion over the forest. It was quite disappointing to him that they had escaped before he had caught them, but he made sure not to let that ruin his mood. He'd get them later, however; when he had noticed how the illusion barrier he set around the forest had weakened a bit from one side, this had caused Shin's eyes to widen up lightly to look over toward the direction where it had weakened. 'Thats...strange...who--....who would've thought these fools were strong enough to break my barrier.' he thought to himself, taking awareness of that it was from the fox-like female. This had left Garrie all alone within the darkness illusion. Slowly turning his attention right back over toward Garrie, Shin just stared with amusement to see how long it was taking his little rival to realize he was trapped within an illusion. The entire time, even Shin was unaware that he was being watched by VIRUS's crow-like beasts. Even with that though, when Shin had heard how Garrie spoke out on calling Shin a coward as well as to come out from the darkness to face him; an immediate laugh escaped his own lips. "Well well well, looks like little Garrie finally caught on." Shin spoke out from the darkness, before jumping off of the large tree branch and to end up landing a bit of a distance behind him. "long time no see huh Garrie?" he asked with a little grin spreading across his face, along with his arms crossed.

Vixen stepped forward and sat down next to Tenshi, keeping a respectful distance.at least he hadn't told her to go away."yes, its Vixen." She said quietly."I, um...I came...to-to make sure you were all right.its dangerous...out here." She managed.she found that being alone with anyone made it difficult to talk."I...if its any consolation...I know...what you're going through...its tough to talk about. My sister...she also died protecting me.im...uh...im sorry..." she said, her voice barely above a whisper.though she wasn't crying, it sounded like she was fighting tears.she sat in silence, collecting herself, looking out at the lake.

Underneith Garrie's cotton face mask, he was bareing his teeth as he gleared at Shin with deadly malic in his eyes. His tail stood on end, slightly fluffed by the surprise of this man appearing from next to nowhere and his hatred for this man. In the time Garrie had been trappped in The Room, he and Shin had crossed paths multipul times. Their power levels where nearly equal, one doing better in one battle then not so well in the next, and the victor always seemed to be the one most emotionally invested.

"Shin..." Garrie hissed again, now standing face to face with his enemy. His tail stood on end and was fluffed up from the intense hatred he held inside for this man. He wanted nothing more then to tear this mans throat out for the torment he'd cause him thus far. None the less, VIRUS had ordered him here to toy with the group as he aften ordered Shin to do. "What have you done to the other? I swear if you've harmed them..."

On the beach Inuyami had made her way down to where the waves broke on the soft white sand. She watched as the water rush up to her toes and swallowed them for a moment it bubbly foam. Her eyes closed and she took a deep breath of the salty air, held it for a moment and exhaled with a great sigh.

"I've never been to a beach before. There aren't any where I'm from in Canada and the ones we do have a pretty cold year round so it's not really worth it to make the drive." Her brillient golden eyes opened and looked at Nagi's. "I like your purple skin, It makes you even more unique; besides, purple is one of my favorite colors! And I think it'll be okay if we stay for a little while, we can just claim we got lost!" Inuyami smiled widely and pulled down her skirt and top before darting to into the ocean in nothing but her panties.

"So am I 'ere by me bloody self?" Murdoc muttered to himself taking another deep drag from his cigarete. He didn't know what he should do. He wondered if this place was just a dream or not.

To say she was astonished when the girl immediately stripped to her undies and ran into the ocean would be an understatement. Wasn't she embarrassed doing that? "I can't swim.." she spoke to her, "I'll just lay here and sun bathe...something is saying I should.."

Tenshi ha remained silent the entire time as he sat there with both his wings wrapped around himself. He had heard from Vixen that he had gotten her name correct, even if he hadn't gotten it right, at this point it probably wouldn't had affected him that much anyway. By the time she had begun to speak up about coming here to check up on him; due to the area being rather dangerous, he simply shook his head lightly. He had just thought about how dangerous it was just now, the whole time he had been walking here he hadn't even once thought about the chances of a random beast popping out of nowhere to attack him. Now thinking about it, Tenshi surprisingly looked still as though he could care less what happened to himself now. Soon enough the last thing he was expecting to hear from Vixen was when she spoke about how she had also lost her sister from her own sister protecting her from something. This on the other hand had caught Tenshi's attention as he ended up turning his head over to look at Vixen; his own eyes slightly widened from the shock that she had also lost a family member as well. This was rather shocking to him due to him never really making friends with anyone before due to him losing everything he cared about. Because of that, Tenshi was never able to tell if others had experienced the pain he ever did or not. After a moment, his own eyes went back to calm as he turned his attention toward the lake as well. "There is no need for you to apologize...It's just...I wish I was strong enough to protect him...You must know how it feels like as well..." he started at first, slowly looking down at his open right palm only to end up slowly closing it into a tight fist. "To feel so powerless...when the ones you love just disappear before your very eyes...and now with this power...we could've protected them...but now its too late..." Tenshi explained, clenching his fist even tighter as he was able to feel the power of darkness within his whole body rushing around as though it were a storm.

A little smirk remained on Shin's face as he watched Garrie stand in front of him at this point; noticing his tail fluffed up slightly from anger had made a small chuckle escape his own lips. Shin was never really one to smile, let alone smirk but in this case he was ordered to play with these newcomers and Shin always sort of enjoyed doing so. Besides, to him he had thought that if he took this whole 'play' thing too seriously and end up killing the newcomers too quickly, Shin had thought for sure that VIRUS wouldn't had been too happy with that. Without so much as a warning, when Garrie had spoken up finally about how if Shin had done anything to the group as in hurting them; he ended up raising both his arms out to show no harm. "Calm down there little kitty Garrie, no need to get your fur all ruffled up...I didn't do anything to them...yet...." his own smirk increasing a bit more, as he had thought for a moment to himself about what VIRUS had ordered Shin to do. Fighting Garrie wasn't part of it, he was supposed to 'play' with these newcomers. Nodding mentally to himself, he immediately ended up snapping his fingers for a moment; right after only to start coughing violently into his left hand as blood came out from his coughs. Immediately right after, five strange blood red blobs came out of the ground as they began to take the exact same shape and figure as what Shin had looked like. Although, they didn't change color to have the same skin color or clothes as they remained completely blood red all over. "Lord VIRUS had ordered me to have some fun with them...so I think thats exactly what I'll do..but he didn't say I couldn't have my own fun with you.." he explained before all five of the strange blood clones serperated their own paths to charge after the newcomers; two heading for Tenshi and Vixen, two more heading for Inuyami and Nagi, while the last one had headed for the direction of the brand newcomer; Murdoc.

(ohh....this'll be fun xD

Shin & Vixen vs. Shin Clones

Nagi & Inuyami vs. Shin Clones

Murdoc vs. Shin Clone

Garrie vs. Real Shin

hmmm...1..2..3..4..5 battles i gotta keep up with lol)

((OH MY GOODNESS! I wish I had time to do a thurough post now but I'm so super excited to get home from work so that i can post something wonderfully great))

((Wicked! That will move things along quite nicely.^_^ ))
Vixen nodded."I know.I know exactly how it feels.I wanted to protect him, too.he was brave..." she trailed off for a moment, collecting her thoughts."I should have done something.my sister...she was my twin, younger by an hour.she was always protecting me from everyone.I was weak, back in the real world.I was born with a weak heart.kids picked on me because I was in a wheelchair, and I couldn't keep up with them.my sister...she always defended me.she was strong.she was beautiful.she could have played with the others, had friends, been popular.but instead she stayed with me, kept me company, made me feel better about myself.then, when we were five, there was an accident.I had tried to go outside, see.I was feeling better so I took my chair and went out to our yard.I was doing well ,until these dogs came along.they were wild.and rabid.they attacked me.my sister heard the barking and came running.she fought them off with a metal pipe.but they hurt her bad.I don't remember much except alot of blood and screaming and barking.the dogs ran away, someone called the pound...the paramedics came and took my sister away.she was in the hospital for days.no one would tell me what was wrong, and I couldn't understand why she was gone. I thought she could never get hurt, that she was invincible.then my parents sat me down and told me that my sister had gone to heaven.I cried for weeks.I couldn't sleep or eat, and at the funeral I just kept calling her name, begging her to come back.now I always stay to myself, I try not to get attached to people.im always scared they're going to leave me.now that im here, though, especially after what Yukito did for us...and now that im not helpless anymore, I want to help protect everyone here.I can't...I can't let anyone else die because of me." She said, staring out at the lake.without knowing it, she had picked up a small stone.in frustration, she flung it at the water.it skipped five times and sank, making ripples in the still waters that reached their feet."but we don't yet understand our powers, and some of us can't control them yet.if we're not careful, we could end up hurting eachother.that's why we should train, learn what our abilities are.for instance, I somehow traveled through shadows to get here.and I don't mean walking.I actually became part of them.but what are the limits to this ability? How will it affect me physically or mentally? We need to find out." She mused.

Staying quiet the whole time Vixen spoke, Tenshi just stared off toward the lake as he had noticed how she had grabbed one of the small stones on the shore only to throw it into the water and having it skip a couple of times before finally sinking into the water. She was explaining to Tenshi on how she knew the same feeling as well that she wanted to protect Yukito, if she could as well. Looking down for a moment, Tenshi simply gave a small mental sigh to himself from remembering the scene of his own raven dying before his very eyes. Although right after, being told the story about who Vixen's sister was as well as being told about how she actually had a heart problem and having her own older sister protect her all the time; rather being with her own sister than deciding to leave with others to make new friends or anything. At first, hearing all the good parts about her story of her sister and her with each other filled Tenshi's heart with a slight bit of warmth due to him remembering the good times he had with his family and his best friend too. It wasn't much, but it was still enough to make him feel a bit better. Although that feeling had left just as quickly as it had approached from hearing how her sister died from the two of them being attacked by a pack of rabid wild dogs. It had seemed that her sister had survived thanks to the paramedics taking her to the hospital; but it didn't seem like she survived very long in the hospital as well. Being told that, reminded Tenshi how his best friend and family were killed by the Yakuza. Instead of wild dogs, these were just ruthless wild people that had no respect for anyone but themselves. "This world...our world...this whole universe...revolves around death.." he whispered to himself, clenching his right fist tightly till the point that some of his own blood drip down his fingers from his palm. Tenshi hated all this death, he truly wanted it all to stop. Immediately right after though, hearing that they all needed to train their new powers or else they could end up not realizing their own limitations and lose control of their own powers, only to end up hurting one another rather than protect; he slowly looked right over toward Vixen with his own eyes widened for a moment before it returned to a more calm expression. "Yeah....I...I guess your right.." he stated, his tone of voice soft and quiet as it usually was. This whole time he was listening to Vixen speak, he hadn't felt the strange darkness getting closer toward the two of them. One of Shin's blood clones were getting closer and closer every second.

The water of the ocean was crisp, clear and refreshing. Inuyami hadn't even seen such wonderful things below a watered surface bofore and she was getting caught up in looking at the animals and corals. She surface and looked into the shore, where she saw Nagi laying in the sun, enjoying it's warmth and stroring energy from the sun. She floated with her head submereged up to her nose as she thought about how the day had gone so far.

The world... The Room I guess it's called, there are so many wonderous things here. I can't imagine why or how we all got here, but at the moment I'm not very sore about it. I've never felt so much at ease, so much like myself though I know this body isn't truely mine. These ears... and skills... and the others...Nagi... Wait NAGI!

On the shore, probably less then half a mile from the sandy beach where Nagi was laying beside Inuyami's empty clothes, Shin's clones where getting closer to the two females. Inuyami's heart filled with panick as she felt the darkness and evil getting closer to Nagi. She dove under the waves and swam with great speed to the shore, running up to her clothes. Inuyami grabbed a long black silk piece from the bottem of the pile, wrapped it around her back, across both breasts, crossed the ends and then tied it behind her neck.

"Nagi, there's something comming... It doesn't feel like it want's to be be friends." She picked up her fur-waisted skirt and pulled it over her wet panties, readying herself to battle these mystery creatures.

In the thick of the woods the scene between Garrie and Shin was getting thickers and more full of charged rage.

"TOY WITH US!" Garrie hissed, his voice was filled with hatred. Was this all just a game to VIRUS? A sickness went to the pit of the cat's stomach as he considered the others within The Room and how new they were to their own powers, he had to help them somehow, but first he'd have to deal with the original Shin. His fists uncleneched and he was now standing with his claws ready to rip into this man. "I'll tear you limb from limb for being so cold. I hope your master pays well, you're going to need it to pay the boat man on the river stix." Garrie charged Shin, swipping at his chest once he was in arms length.

VIRUS watched all this happening and was quite impressed. Shin was doing a splended job with his first large assignment, and the crow demons where doing well for their test run as well. He was a little surprised to see the clones dart from the trees and head for the rest of the group that had somehow slipped away. Today was going perfect for the psycotic villan.

Vixen nodded."you have darkness in you." She observed."I saw it during the battle.and I can feel it surging through you when you get upset.it could be useful, though.its strange, I feel the same darkness in me, sometimes.I felt it back home, too.maybe our powers here have something to do with our personalities or our pasts..." she mused.seeing his hand bleeding, she took it gently in hers and inspected the wounds.then, tearing a strip of cloth from her pant leg, she tied his hand up in a makeshift bandage."you should be more careful.getting hurt here could be really dangerous-" she broke off, her body going stiff and her ears twitching."can you feel that? Something evil, headed our way..."

When Vixen had spoken up on saying that Tenshi had darkness within himself, he completely stayed silent as he stared down at the lake. Even if he didn't want to admit it, his own heart had realized that he was controlling the power of darkness as well as other abilities that even he didn't know about yet. Although when he had heard that Vixen had also felt a strange dark power within her in the real world as well as here; his thoughts on what she had said about how their personalities could be attached to that of their powers came to his mind. He had many times in his life when he had lost control of his emotions due to people throwing rocks at his house as well as calling him names from outside. Almost everyone in his neighborhood knew about Tenshi's life and what had happened, but many of the teenagers, kids and even adults made fun of him for being so down just because he lost those precious things in his life. Due to that, many times Tenshi's anger would sore out of control; many times even to the point he would almost leave his home to beat up those people. Thankfully enough however, Yukito was always there to calm him down before those things could even happen. Giving a little half sigh to himself, Tenshi let out a small gasp when he had felt his bleeding hand get pulled away over toward Vixen. "Wh-what are you--" right as he barely finished his sentence, noticing how Vixen was wrapping up his bleeding palm to stop the blood had caused a bit of a concerned look to cross his face. Someone was actually willingly helping him rather than making fun of him or calling him names or even deciding to ignore him. Listening to her speak about how he should be more careful, only to hear her stop in mid sentence as well from feeling a strange darkness coming closer had caused Tenshi's own eyes to widen up from feeling the weird darkness as well. Turning his head over toward the direction of what was coming, his expression immediately became more serious.

Shin at this point was still standing right in front of Garrie as he noticed how he was getting a bit too angry. Right before he could even get another word out from what Garrie had said about him tearing Shin limb from limb. A little chuckle escaped his lips as his eyes widened up for a moment right after when he had seen how Garrie charged forward only to end up slashing forward. Seeing the slashes had caused Shin to backflip a couple of times to dodge the attack. "Woah there kitty cat. Calm down now." he said with another chuckle before clapping his hands together for a moment to cause a pair of spiked knuckles to appear around his fists. "Well little kitty. C'mon." he taunted, charging forward to punch Garrie right toward the gut; making sure each one of his punches were filled with dark energy so that it would have a bit of a longer range.
All the while the two clones that were charging forward toward Tenshi and Vixen had finally made their way toward them as they had immediately come to a stop. The two clones stared at both Tenshi and Vixen for a moment, both of their faces completely emotionless. Although soon enough, after standing there for a few more seconds; their forms began to shift into strange blobs for another time before finally revealing one blob became the form of the exact look and color of Tenshi's best friend while the other formed the same and color of Vixen's older sister.
While the other two blood clones of Shin that had made their way toward Inuyami and Nagi had also made it; only to end up stopping right in front of them, just like the other two they both had emotionless expressions across their faces. Not before long, one of the clones had turned themselves into the same color and form of Inuyami's mother while the other had changed itself into the shape and color of Nagi's father. Finally, the last clone that was going after Murdoc was still on it's way; getting closer and closer from every second that had pasted by.

Behind him Murdoc could tell there was someone aprocing him. "What the bloody 'ell is this?" He asked out loud to no one. He took another long drag of his cigaret. He flicked it at the blood clone and scoffed. "And just 'ow the 'ell are you supposed to be?"

Vixen gasped.two clone like creatures had appeared, and turned into other forms within seconds.her eyes watered."Onee-Chan...Scarlett...is that really...?" She trailed off, suddenly remembering that her sister was dead."no, you're not..." suddenly, she became angry.a vicious crimson aura surrounded her, and her eyes turned black."how dare you...how dare you take her form! How dare you disrespect my sisters memory!? You'll pay!!" She growled, and fired a ball of black fire at the clone.the fire ball stopped at the last second however."no...I can't...Tenshi, help! I know its not her but I just can't...! You have to fight that one! You fight her and I'll fight yours! Please!" She said, hoping he was listening.this kind of trick was used in anime all the time, she knew.the best way to combat it was to fight the opposite enemy.

"..." Inuyami's heart had stopped in her chest, she had stopped breathing and her mind started racing. "M...momma?!" Her fighting stance softly fell as she becames unaware of what was happening. To her, she was now in her own world with no one but the imposter who to her, was real. In an instant, Inuyami's appearance shifted. She was eight year old Mani again and standing infront of one of the two people she'd missed the most for so long. "MOMMA!" Her young and high pitch voice called out and the young girl ran towards the clone of Shin. Tears ran down her round cheeks as she embrased the waist of the imposter, unaware of the danger she was in.

Garrie dodged the first few rounds of Shin's barage but the illusion he'd cast on the forest was making it hard for him to focus and defend himself. Shin's punch landing in Garrie's stomach and sent him flying backwards and across the ground of the forest. The cat stood up with a slight grimis of pain in his eyes, and one arm wrapped around his abdomen. He hated having to show that he'd actually taken a good amount of damage but he fought it as best he could.

"Why do you do this?" Garrie said, coughing on his words and he fought to keep his composure and plan his what he should do next. "Why do you attack us in the name of VIRUS? Their just trying to get back home, they've done nothing to you nor your master!" He was standing strait now, the pain had faded to a minor annoyance that he could over look. His tail swished from one side to the other in a flustered anger, and his ears twitched at every little sound, standing on end in a hyper alertive state.

By the time Tenshi had seen the two blood clones of Shin make their way up to both of them; his eyes had widened up on wondering who these people were. The strange blood-like color of their skin kind of scared him a bit on knowing that these people meant to harm both Vixen and himself. Although when he had seen how both the clones began to shift their forms as well as color, Tenshi's breath became more steady for a moment thanks to no longer seeing the strange blood-like color of the clone's skins. However, that didn't last too long when he finally ended up seeing how the clones had changed themselves to look exactly like his best friend. While the other had changed into another female, that sounded as though it were Vixen's older sister; at least to what Vixen had said it sounded like it. She seemed to be in as much shock as Tenshi was in. Both of the clones stared toward Vixen and Tenshi as they still had emotionless expressions across their faces; almost as though they were zombies. Tenshi stared at his best friend's imposter as sadness spread across his own face, the fateful day when his best friend had died right before his eyes by the yakuza had replayed through his own head. Tears began to roll down his own cheeks as he began to feel weakened in his own legs; he felt as though he was about to fall to his own knees. Although soon enough, when Vixen asked for help saying that she'd fight his best friend while he had to fight her sister; he looked over toward her worriedly as though he was afraid to even fight at all. Luckily enough, he ended up nodding as he glared over toward Vixen's older sister. Ready for a fight.

Shin on the other hand at this point had seen the damage he had done toward Garrie, seeing this; he knew once he reported back to VIRUS his master would be pleased to know what he had done. However, hearing the question on why Shin did all this when these newcomers were simply looking for a way out of this world; the smirk that was across his face immediately vanished as it returned to a more serious expression; something he gave more normally than his smirk. "You just dont get it....do you Garrie..? Master VIRUS, doesn't want to simply destroy the digital plains. Once he has destroyed it, we have nowhere else to go but to the human world..with his immense power; we'll make those humans bow down to him. His orders are my will..." he spoke as though he meant every single word he spoke of. "Garrie...to VIRUS, you are simply a thorn in his side. Nothing more, nothing less." he explained before Shin's own eyes widened up in shock and pain; causing one of his hands to quickly move over his mouth; coughing up blood violently in his palm. 'n-no...n-not now..' he thought to himself, the illness that affected him from using his blood powers was beginning to take affect once again as he continued to cough more violently.

The clones that were fighting against Vixen and Tenshi at this point noticed how Vixen was able to quickly realize that this was their enemy. Although soon enough, Vixen's imposter sister began to slowly open her mouth as tears rolled down her face. They were obviously fake, but the look of them made it seem way too real. "S-sister..a-are you going to let...m-me die again..?...your going to l-let a stranger k-kill me..?" she spoke, the tone of voice saddened as though she was heartbroken by her own sister. While Tenshi's best friend stared at him sadly with just as many tears rolling down his cheeks. "Tenshi...y-your going t-to let me die again..?...I..I told y-you to run...b-but you didnt even bother to call for help...your going to let me be murdered once again..?" he begged sadly; the clones were trying to convince Vixen and Tenshi that they were the real loved ones that they once knew; just so that the clones could catch them off guard and kill them easier.

The clones that stood before Nagi and Inuyami at this time that had shifted into Inuyami's mother while the other shifted into Nagi's father; both stared at them with the same emotionless expressions across their faces. When Inuyami had run up to her imposter mother, only to end up hugging her by the waist the clone had pretended to be her real mother for a moment before a devilish grin spread across it's face. This had become too easy, immediately both of it's hands began to become surrounded in a blood-like colored aura as the grip tightened onto Inuyami's body as though it was trying to choke her to death. While the imposter father of Nagi held his own arms out, as though he wanted a hug from his very own daughter. "Nagi, dear..c'mere and give your dad a hug." he spoke, the tone of voice sounding just like her father would sound and as though he was happy to finally see his daughter after so long.

Now finally, the last clone that had come after Murdoc had stared at him; completely unchanged from the form of what Shin looked like, as well as the color of blood all over it's body. It had felt the small burning sensation of the cigaret flicking right off of it's own body, but did not give even the smallest flinch of pain go through it's body. Hearing the question that Murdoc had given it, the blood clone simply stomped it's foot into the ground causing strange shadow-like chains to come sky-rocketing out of the ground; chasing straight down toward Murdoc as though they were going to puncture right through his body to instantly kill him.

(didn't know what to shift the one for Murdoc into xD sorry, since you didn't put any past info. ^^'' didn't know what to change it into.)

A crimson energy flowed over young Mani's body as her fake mother began to squeeze the life from her. She could feel her chest getting tight and she couldn't move her arms or run away. How could she have been so foolish? It had been eight years since she'd seen the brunette haired woman, and she knew far well that her mother was gone, but seeing her face once more was over whelming for her tender heart and mind.


"Mo....momma... Why?" Mani choked on the air the was being forced out of her lungs by this horrible creature. She could hear her heart beat slowing in her ears, her face was burning as it deepened in red tones, and everything was starting to become distant and fade to darkness. Her eyes closed and all she could think of was the night she'd heard the news.

A police office had come knocking on the front door of the home Mani and Jean-Robert had grown up in. It was late, Manuella usually would of been in bed by not, but since her big brother had come to baby sit her while their parents where gone, she was able to stay up later then normal. She had been the one to open the door; wide eyed she staired up at the officer unsure of why he was there. The suited man steped inside and went to another room with Jean-robert. The talked quietly for quite sometime, and then the man left. Jean-Bob later explained the situation to her, that was the end of her innocent young life.

Manuella hated her self for so long after that. She cursed herself for being naive at that age, for not having said a proper goodbye due to being caught up in seeing her big brother, and for not begging them to stay. Though it was never her fault, she'd always blamed herself for something she could of never controlled.

This is it then, I'm finally paying for the wrong I did as a child. The shaved cat... the broken vases... I would of taken it all back if I could... And yet, though I knew this is what I deserve, I'm not ready to go. I don't want to die when I've finally found a place where I feel I belong. I finally have a reason to stand and fight... Jean-Robert... I'm sorry.. Nagi...

The clones power was starting to over power Mani, she fell to her knees, her heart beating less the thirty times a minute. She could feel the life inside her draining away and The Room, the real world, everything was beginning to slip away as her body began to resist the erge to fight. NAGI The serpant woman's name repeated in her mind before compleat darkness won over, she feel to the ground, breaking the blood red aura, and laid still.

It appeared the clone had won. Mani's young body laid motionless on the sand of the beach, waves roared in the background and washed over her small hand.

"N... Nagi." A whisper had slipped from the lips in a tone that would of been barely audible even to the sand if it had ears. In an intence blast of energy, Mani's body was wrapped in a white light and she was lifted from the sand. "NOOOOOO!" The ball of white energy screamed in Mani's voice. The light dissapeared and Mani had once again become Inuyami, but there was something slight different. Inuyami had finally unlocked her true powers.

From behind the clone posing at Inuyami's mother, a rock came flying a stuck it in the head; knocking in off balance. The rage in Inuyami's eyes were unmessurable compaired to the pain inside her heart. It was one thing to lie and take the form of someone she'd loved very dearly, it was another to slander their good name in such away.

"You are not my mother!" Inuyami screamed at the top of her lungs, relieving some of the pent up emotions inside her chest. She rose her hand, causing a wave of white sand to cover the false clone and knock it off balance. She walked over to the monster and stepped on the throat, pressing down only hard enough to cause discomfort and not let it up. "WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS!" Yami growled as she applied more pressure.

Nagi eyed the clone of her Father ever since the events began she was laying there, having dirty thoughts about Inu's curvy body, thanks to her stripping and running off. She felt heart broken hearing the girl's screams and began to look for some sort of weapon. A sword would be nice, heck an assault rifle would even help, but all she could find was a wooden paddle. "It will do."

She turned back to the clone and began to smile, "My Dad would never openly offer to hug me, I had to earn the right, it was how they raised me...I was taught you had to fight for what you wanted, sorry but that's a bad portrayal of a snooty rich kid's father, even if I didn't see him for months." It was true, her parents did love her, but they believed it would teach her discipline if it was her nanny instead it would have been something different. She flung the paddle at the thing to distract it and when she slithered close enough, she wrapped her coils around its neck. Snakes would often suffocate their prey, she was hoping for another power like...being able to transform into a large cobra or some sort, but maybe when she got used to this body.

(O.O hey Inuyami: can you edit your post and put Garrie in for what Shin did? I got an idea storming in me head :3)

Taking notice of Shin's coughing, Garrie could tell now was his time to strike. While the villan was focused on the blood in the palm of his hand, Garrie flash stepped in close to Shin and delivered a hard kick to his ribs. There was obviously something wrong with his lungs, that was his weak point!

"I will die before I allow such horrid things to happen!" Garrie said to Shin. He gleared at the man and readied his claws, there ripping of limbs was about to begin.

((Sorry, that last post was just to epic to split between two characters! lol))

Vixen faltered for a second.no! Look for the differences.this is not my sister.there's no way they could get every detail...there! Her eyes are wrong! she thought to herself."you are not my Onee-Chan! Stupid clone! My sister had two different colored eyes! And my sister never, EVER begged, cried or stuttered!" She said.for all her tough words, however, Vixen still couldn't fight the clone.the resemblance was too great, even with the differences."she...she didn't even cry when the dogs bit her..." a memory flashed across her mind, taking her by surprise.Onee-Chan, holding a metal pipe, two big doggies jumping at her flash! a scream, Onee-Chan, in the teeth of the dogs, mouth open in a silent scream flash! Onee-Chan's face, closer up.laying on the ground, bleeding all over, her mouth moved, a whisper...'be strong.one heart, two bodies...' then, a tear, just one, not hers...Onee-Chan was crying...flash! the big truck, flashing lights, a loud siren...taking Onee-Chan away flash! the funeral, Onee-Chan in a box, looking so small, rain falling, her, crying, calling for her sister, mommy crying, daddy turned away... Vixen blinked, shook her head.no, that was in the past."she did cry...no! Its still not her! " dark energy burst from her, engulfing her in black flames.she turned the flames on the other clone, screaming with rage and grief.

Just from standing there and still staring at the two clones that had formed themselves as the imposters of the loved ones of both Vixen and Tenshi before their very eyes. He couldn't help but stare in shock, parayzed with fear on how his best friend could once again be alive. Sadness filled his eyes as his attention was taken away from Vixen; to look back at his best friend.

Immediately without even a single warning, the entire area to Tenshi had changed to go right back to the fateful day of his best friend's death. Both of them were walking home from night school since they had gone to the same high school together; they had a club meeting at night, Tenshi's friend had known how dangerous it was for him to be so close to someone like this; even considering he was in the yakuza. The two of them spoke to one another, making jokes and telling stories to each other on their way home to pass the time more easily; when out of nowhere a black van had turned the corner of a street to stop right in front of both Tenshi and his friend. Slowly the large metal black door of the side of the van began to slide open to the side to reveal complete darkness within it. Quietly from within the darkness was a voice that had spoken out. 'Hikaru...you have betrayed us..' it seemed to had been a male voice, Hikaru was the name of Tenshi's best friend as the last thing Tenshi heard was his best friend telling him to run home quickly. Without so much as a warning, due to the sudden reaction of hearing his friend yell out to run. Tenshi had just done that as he ran for his life, turning another corner of the street; but only to look back and see that his friend was immediately shot down multiple times from whoever was within the black van. Sirens were immediately heard from afar as the black van drove off right away after killing his friend. Tenshi had hoped that he could go home and tell his parents about this, but unfortunately by the time he had gotten home as well; he ended up finding a trail of blood leading into the kitchen. Once inside, Tenshi had almost nearly lost his mind to find a two police officers doing an investigation and two black cloths over two bodies on the; in a large pool of blood. There was no doubt in his mind, that Tenshi obviously knew it was his parents.

The only thing that was able to knock him back into reality of what was going on, was because of the extreme heat coming over from Vixen beside him. Tenshi had realized it, but his cheeks were covered in tears from him crying so much just all from remembering what had happened. These clones were messing with both Vixen and his own mind as though they were simply toys. Turning his attention over toward Vixen, seeing the black flames his own eyes widened up in shock of how much sadness and pain she was going through as well. "V-Vixen..." he spoke, his own voice soft and almost to the point of a whisper. Tenshi's own sadness was building up within as well, but just seeing how Vixen was reacting was able to keep him a bit more in shock than sadness to lose control at this point. Although the last thing he was expecting was when he had felt other strange overwhelming powers from a bit more of a farther distance from here. Unaware of who they were from, Tenshi simply gave a small gulp to himself; hoping those powers were on his and Vixen's side.

Once Shin was able to catch his breath more easily as well as stop his violent coughing, he slowly took his attention back over toward Garrie. However, as he ended up looking back toward him, the last thing he was expecting was to see how close his opponent was up to his face by now. A small gasp along with his eyes widened up in shock immediately took place, as he was kicked into the ribs; causing himself to go flying and slam his back against the wall. The illness that was spreading throughout Shin's body was becoming worst and worst everytime he seemed to use his blood powers. They were indeed powerful, but they came at a high price of lowering his lifespan. "Why you--..." he managed to speak out with a soft grunt, only to end up grinding his teeth to keep himself from coughing up more blood. Taking his own fingernails he clawed his own left arm til blood began dripping down his entire arm; indeed it was painful but it was all to do the better fighting. Quickly enough, the blood that dripped from his arm had come out as though it were a river; only to end up stopping at the palm of his wrist. The blood that had dripped down had become an arm-blade. Although doing so, had immediately caused him to cough lightly; but Shin was able to hold them down into small grunts of pain.

While the two clones that were fighting against Inuyami and Nagi at this time were becoming weaker just like all of Shin's clones, only due to because of his illness taking affect. The forms were becoming much more blurry but their strengths were still unimaginably powerful, although the vision of each one of their different forms began to change as though they were slowly turning back into their more normal blood-colored Shin clones. The clone that fought against Inuyami had it's own eyes widened up in shock and fear for a moment when it didn't expect to see how she was able to conquer her sadness. Being dropped to the floor with it's throat being crushed as well as hearing a question from her, the clone simply gave a small smirk before it had just popped and became a small puddle of blood on the ground; although the blood at this point began to become much more of a darker red until it finally turned pitch black; burning anything it had touched like fire. While the clone that was fighting against Nagi at this point was choking dearly on for breath as it was able to listen in on what she said about her family being the type to fight for what they wanted. Just the same as the one that fought against Inuyami, it immediately popped into a puddle of black strange liquid on the ground that burned whatever it touched. The clones were easily defeated this time, only because they were weakened from Shin's true body getting weaker. But, even with that he was able to gather new information on the newcomers powers. They were much stronger than he had expected them to be.

Now, the two clones that were fighting against both Vixen and Tenshi had this point had seen how Vixen was becoming much more angered; while Tenshi was openly wide out for an attack. Both the clones were beginning to lose their forms as well to become back to normal Shin's blood-colored clones; but they were still able to keep their forms a bit longer. Taking the oppurnity they had, both of them charged forward to attack Tenshi since he didn't look like he was getting anymore powerful; however they knew all too well they were going to be defeated by Vixen's overwhelming power. So without even a second to spare, the two clones simply gave a wide grin as they used up much of their remaining power to go into their normal clone forms once again; since they knew both Tenshi and Vixen had realized these clones were completely different. Changing both of their arms into blood sharpened blades, they immediately came after Tenshi; only to have them both miss lightly. However, both clones were able to stab one of their sharpened sword-like arms through his own body. One clone's arm had stabbed right through Tenshi's chest, nearly missing the heart; thankfully. While the other stabbed him right through the gut. Being stabbed deeply, both of the arms were able to puncture deep enough they came right through his body and right out the other side. However, even with all that pain; Tenshi held onto both their arms to keep them from moving. Thinking to himself, even if he might die here he'd take them down with him.

(dont worry guys xD Hes not going tew die. *giving it dramatic scene* n.n)

Upon seeing the clones charge at Tenshi, Vixen made to stop them but before she could, they had stabbed him.that was it.something in her snapped, rage overcame her, her form became complete shadow, flaming on the edges.the shadow fox charged at the clones,,moving at the speed of thought.she came upon them quickly, sliced through them with her flames, dislodged them from Tenshi's body.seconds later, the shadow became formless, a mass of energy which enveloped the clones in all-consuming flames.the clones were incinerated, absorbed into the girls essence.the shadow took form again, gradually gathering substance until she was solid again.then, still radiating slight heat and extra energy from absorbing the clones, she knelt beside Tenshi."are you all right? Will you live?" She asked, her voice soft.

Murdoc made his hands into fists. He wanted to kick who ever this was ass and kick it hard. How dare he aproch him and act so foolishly. He swung at the clone, missing most strike but also landing strong ones to the closes stomach and face. "Filthy scum!" Murdoc said in a scratch smoker voice

To see the clone just burst into a firery liquid benieth her feet cause Inuyami great shock. She wanted to kill it, she wanted to cause the clone as much pain as it's cause her, and it just exploded before she could even begin. Standing in the burning liquid, Inuyami looked back at Nagi, her eye sorrow full and yet with a disturbing emptiness behind the pain.

"Nagi..." Her voice was soft and even emptier then her eyes appeared to be. "You need to go back now... take the fruit back to the others..." She looked down at the sand and then back to Nagi's eyes. "Forgive me..." Inuyami said solemnly before dissapearing in a flash step. The speed Inuyami was moving at was so incredable, not even bloody foot prints were left to give hit as to where she'd gone or where she was headed.

The sight of Shin's arm-blades set Garrie back for a moment. This is a new technique he thought to himself as he examined Shin's new movements. It would be all he could do to keep from getting hit by the devistating weapon, so Garrie remain vigalant, looking for any opening he could expose. Shin's caughing was obviously slowing him down, now the question was how does Garrie use it against him.