You will never be the best!..... Stop it! Your killing him!!!!........Show weakness and you will die!!!....I will never forgive you for what you have done SHIN!!....

Pitch black area with only Malicar in it and there is a bright opening with a figure in it. He hears it say everything from above and moves toward it. It gets louder and more insulting and he starts to run faster, angry. He gets closer and closer, more words irritate him. He pulls out his claws and lunges to attack the figure. The figure turns around suddenly and it was sweet Inuyami, smiling at him. He stops his hand from hitting her, shocked that it's her. He puts his hand down and looks into her eyes. She moves in for a kiss and he does too then she smiles evily and her face turns black and more demonic and attacks him.

Malicar falls off the log he was sleeping on and his heart is racing. It was a dream.... he thought to himself. He looks down and notices Inuyami's cloth is on him again. He picks it up about to throw it off like before, but decides to keep it on him this time. He lies down and cuddles up with the cloth and falls asleep again......

In the wide digital ocean, Inuyami let herself float on the surface of the water naked. Unlike most oceans, this water was fresh water and didn't have a hint of salt in it. It was nice to know she wouldn't have to worry about drying off and being covered in salt crystals. The moon reflected of her tan skin and snow white hair as she drifted with the currents. Songs of Oharishi whales in the distance dances in the wind and lulled Inuyami as she rocked with the waves.

Less then two hours passed before Inuyami returned to camp. Malicar was still passed out but had moved about in her absence, she didn't think anything of it and too a seat on a log, next to where he was laying, by the fire. Her hair clung to her curves as their dampness began to make her very cold. She rang out move water from her hair and decided to retire to the hut where the wind could not chill her bones.

Malicar woke up early in the morning with more life than ever, determined to defeat his nightmare he had last night. He ran as fast as he can through the woods jumping on the trees. He couldn't get Inuyami out of his head and he didn't know why. He ran as fast as he can on the beach, still couldn't stop thinking of her. Finally he got tired and headed back to camp. He sat next to the fire pit waiting for her to wake up, hoping that when she does, he won't act any different toward her

Inuyami walked out of the hut with a yawn and stretch, the same way she had done before. Unfortunately, she was a creature of habbits.

"Good morning." She said to Malicar as she rubbed one of her eyes clear of sleep. The morning air was chilly and her breasts made sure to make it more the obvious. Inuyami blushed and tried not to draw any more attention to the problem then she had already by looking down at them. "Slept well I hope." She said as she picked up her waist wrap from the logs. She noticed that today it hadn't gotten as dirty as the day before. 'Malicar must not of tossed it aside' she thought to herself.

Malicar turned to Inuyami when she asked if he slept well. He nodded without making a sound to her. He then got up and walked right past her to the trail. He turned around to her. "Going for a walk......." He hesitates the rest. "".....wanna come?" Malicar waits for a moment and then starts to walk off, thinking she'll just say no anyway, thinking it was stupid to ask.....

Inuyami blinks blankly for a moment. Had he really just invited her to join him.

"Uhm, sure..." She answered him but her was already gone. Her ears fell flat in disbelief and the flip-flop attitude he was displaying and thought maybe it was a joke he was playing. Any second now he was going to turn around and make fun of her right? She decided to fallow behind but remained silent.

The awkward walk began and It was silent. The wind was blowing softly and Malicar could hear the animals in the woods and smell blood drawn from a deceased animal that died but a day ago.

After awhile, they got to the woods and Malicar finally spoke. "You could stand beside me. I'm not gonna hurt you......" Malicar clears his throat but tries to do it silently for Inuyami not to hear it. He crosses his arms and continues to walk with her.....

"...oh, right..." Inuyami said as she quicked her pace just long enough to catch up with Malicar. She watched the ground as they walked. Her ear twitched at the sound of him clearing her throat. It made her skin jump but she tried not to show it. It was so silent. "Uhm... Malicar." Inuyami began but she wasn't really sure what she wanted to say. She bit down on her lower lip, making it bleed on the inside where he wouldn't notice. It was a bad habbit she did when she was uncomfortably nervous. "Do you like it here?" The wolf eared girl finally asked.

When Inuyami got closer to Malicar, he got nervous cuz he could smell her scent. It was making him all warm inside, a feeling he never felt before. It got his heart racing like this morning but he didn't show anything on the outside. Looking straight ahead, he answered Inuyami. "The camp is good I guess.... what about it?"

"Well I mean everything... The Room itself." Inuyami said and for the first time looked up into his eyes. She stoped walking so that the two of them could have a conversation. "I mean... if you had the choice to go back to the real world or stay here for the rest of your life, where would you rather be?" The dog girl's amber-golden eyes sparkled in the sunlight as she looked up into his red eyes.

She had thought of it the night before, while she lay adrift in the digital sea. There was nothing to return home to. Jean-bob was dead, the only family she had left. Her art was begining to sell but she was only just getting by with her bills. Here, in The Room, she didn't have to worry about any of those things. Even if her only company was an emotionaly constipated amniesia case, he was the first bit of company she'd had since she first gotten home. Truth of the matter was, this world was the only part of her brother that she had left.

Malicar saw the sparkle of her eyes as he stared into them. He knew he liked her now and couldn't stop staring into her eyes. Finally, she asked her question and he shook his head to get out of the little trance he was in. "I don't remember what the other world was like." He spoke with a soft voice. "I don't know what anything really is. All i know is how i was raised and how to survive, nothing else." Malicar sees that Inuyami wanted a straight answer and so to make her happy, he answered. "But if I had to choose, I would choose this place. It's quiet here." He looks away from her eyes to avoid his heart from pounding.

"...yea." Inuyami said, she turned to face down the path again and finished her thought. "I prefer it here myself aswell." She told him as she began to walk again. She must of seemed like such an air headed girl, but she was simply just lost in thought. Looking at all the trees, she knew full well were she was. The thought of when she and Naga, the half woman half snake from her first visit to The Room, held hands the walk back to camp after a scandelous night at the beach alone together. Her cheeks went red remembering Naga's curious tail and tricky tongue. She cleared her throat and tried to think of something to say to get her mind off the memory. "So you still don't remember anything from before?"

Malicar looks up above the trees and speaks. "Since you said I was this SHIN character before, I have been having these dreams lately." He looks down and speaks softly. "I don't see any images of the past but I do hear these voices I don't recognize. All they do is yell and scream at me the entire time saying I'm a monster." Malicar looks back at Inuyami with sadness in his eyes for once. "Your part of the voices too."

Malicar thought about the dream he had the other night with all the yelling and shouting. He remembers Inuyami's voice the most for she was yelling the most. You murdered him!! I will never forgive you for what you have done SHIN!!

"Was I really that much of a..." He hesitates the rest of his thought for It hurt him to say. "Monster?"

Inuyami looked intently at Malicar as he questioned his past. She could see in his eyes that he regretted the monster he was back then, even though he couldn't remember any of it. Her eyes fell to the ground for a moment then rose again to find his.

"Sometimes it isn't the fire that's important, it's what comes back in it's place." Inuyami said. The wind blew her hair up and it brushed against her cheeks before it fell back to her breasts. She wiped the loose strands from infront of her eyes. "You were a power hungry beast, VIRUS used Shin as his dog... feeding him power to trick him into believing that VIRUS only had the best intentions for him. Shin couldn't have known.... you couldn't have known any better... VIRUS was a master at brain washing!"

Malicar thought about the words Inuyami spoke. Maybe, just maybe, he had no choice in the matter and could of been an alright guy if VIRUS didn't force him to be bad. Maybe that's why he's been a prick since he landed in The Room, he's been rubbing off the evil that consumed him before and why he's been feeling things for Inuyami lately.

Malicar looked straight ahead and changed the subject matter quickly. "We best go back to camp, It's past noon." He turns around and begins to walk toward camp again like nothing was said.

"Right..." Inuyami said as she once again fallowed behind Malicar. The sun was starting to settle in the west and it was begining to get late.

As they walk, a gentle breeze hits the woods and the trees sway back and forth. Leaves fly across the path Malicar and Inuyami were on and hits him in the face. He grabs the leaf and drops it on the ground. Leaves on the ground shuffle to the other side, getting pushed by the wind. Malicar looks up and sees groups of birds flying with the wind, he gets hit by another leaf. He grunts and grabs it and throws it on the ground.

Out of the woods, the wind gets stronger and almost pushes Malicar and Inuyami off the path. The sky is darker than when they first left for the walk. Looks like there's a storm coming Malicar thought to himself. Near the mountains, he sees that it's darker there than anywhere else and it's almost pitch black.

Suddenly, thunder struck in the distance and the sky was covered in pitch black. Malicar cringes his face, sensing something different. "This is no storm......" He pauses and turns to Inuyami. ".....this must be VIRUS!"

As Malicar turned at faced her, he could see the terror in Inuyami's eyes. Her ears laid flat to her head and her shoulders rose as her chin met her collar bone. Like a pup afraid of a thunder storm, Inuyami looked like she was about to lose her mind.

"It...it's him.... he's coming..." Inuyami was froze in her spot, her eyes locked on on particular black cloud that was begining to decend from the mountains. Malicar and Inuyami had been in The Room now for two and a half days with out any sign of the devious bastard who once controlled the land of The Room. Their luck had finally run dry. A down pour of rain began to fall on Inuyami and Malicar, soaking their hair and clothes in mear seconds. The storm above head was a pure chaos of wind and rain that stung their skin from the force in which it fell.

"Well, well, weeeelllllll!" A familiar femine voice came from the black cloud as it neared the Malicar and Inuyami. Mist, black as the cloud itself, filled the air and blew aways in the gusts of wind to reveal a seven foot tall man in sexy woman's clothing. His slender legs where clad in fishnet stocking with leather boots. Around his waist he had a leather mini skirt that was chained to a leather halter top. His hair was short but pulled into a pony tail. "If it isn't dear little Yami... and Shin... why you look rather different then the last time we met. Not so doom a gloom anymore? Pity, you lust for power was so intoxicating... I should of know it could never last mmmmhahahahaha."

Inuyami watched, frozen in fear with her mouth hanging open. She wished she could move: attack, run, collaps... do something but she was compleatly and utterly terrorfied.

Before VIRUS came down, Malicar saw the fear in Inuyami, like a puppy that knew it was in trouble. Malicar got in battle stance, keeping his feet on the ground so the storm wouldn't push him away, ready to see this corrupted God that is the source of their problems.

VIRUS came down and Malicar was a little disappointed in how he looked. He pictured this Giant of a being that could kill the biggest beast with a single thrust of his finger, not some transvestite that looks like he's worried about breaking a nail.

Malicar got off his battle stance and smiled. "Your the source of my problems?? HA! You got to be kidding me! Your just some nancy boy who is confused about his sexuality, that's all you are." He starts to laugh a little bit and then speaks again. "Now, you going to give me back my memories and get us out of here like a good little girl...i mean boy you are, or am I going to have to beat it out of you?" He crosses his arms, smiling at VIRUS, very confident in the battle that is to come.

For a silent moment, VIRUS looked unto Malicar in shock. Suddenly he burst out laughing, was this guys serious!?

"OH my little Shin," VIRUS flash stepped infront of Malicar in a blink of an eye and lifted his chin with a finger. "You really must have lost your memories to talk to MEE like that." VIRUS smile and moved away before Malicar could strike him.

When VIRUS blinked in front of Malicar, Malicar was stunned that he could move like that. VIRUS's fingernail cut his chin when he lifted his head up and he was shaking in fear knowing it's sharper than any blade he had seen. He met his match.

VIRUS backed away from him and Malicar grabbed his neck, covering the cut on his throat. "How...how did you do that?" Malicar was slowly backing away next to Inuyami, finally realizing why she was so afraid of this being.

A smile crawled across VIRUS' face once the situtations gavity finally took hold of Malicar. He may not remember who he was, but he certainly sunk into his mind and heart.

"It's about time I got some recognition." VIRUS said. "However, I'm not here to cause chaos or drama. Simply join be and you can both have everything you've ever wanted."

Malicar doesn't say anything, he just looks at Inuyami. In reality, he does want to go with him but hearing everything that has happened to him from Inuyami made him hate VIRUS. And since he got Inuyami to trust him, he knew that if he went with him, she wouldn't ever forgive him again. After a bit of silence, Malicar makes his decision. He looks at VIRUS "You'll have to kill me before I join you again!"

In the silent uncertain moments that passed, Inuyami feared Malicar's answer. Would he join the evil program and kill her as his master comanded? A hard swallow slugged down the dog demon's thoat as her eyes bounce between VIRUS and Malicar.

"You'd rather die then rule? SO BE IT!" VIRUS growled at the two of them knowing Inuyami's answer without her having to say it. He knew the chances of her joining his plot where slim, he thought he would offer. He wanted to be a good host after all.

VIRUS' hand began to glow a dark purple flames that gave off a negetive black light. The air around Malicar and Inuyami dropped in tempreture by twenty degrees, and suddenly they were surrounded by a thick green mist. The evil VIRUS dissapeared from sight.

"GRRR DAMN IT!" Inuyami growled finally able to break from her paralysis. "This isn't good Malicar. It's not horrible but it's deffinately not good." Turning so that their shoulder blades were touching, Inuyami got in a fighting possition. "I hope you're ready to meet yourself...."

"What you mean??" Suddenly, the green mist goes around them, scanning their entities then shoots out ahead of them. In an instant, the green mist goes in the air and these two black and white, human shaped beings form in front of Malicar and Inuyami. Slowly, these beings start getting hands and feet, hair and eyes, noses and ears.

Malicar and Inuyami watch as these things are being born, ready for trouble. Soon, the beings start to mimic the clothes of Inuyami and Malicar but Malicar's clone is a lil different than what he looks like....he's more well dressed and evil. Inuyami's clone looks like what she used to be when she was in The Room before, but Malicar's clone was in fact SHIN!