Hidden Within - The Secret [007]+[008]

[JFC]

Shoji is on his way to Koharu, when suddenly some weight presses him to the ground. Yuko doesn't feel anything.

Eri, who is at the front door with Aichan, also feels this weight.

Weight? Is it some manifestation of the power held by that mystery voice?

Shoji can't seem to move anymore. He tells Yuko to get Koharu out of here. Yuko turns to Koharu. She sees something. Something dark is next to Koharu. Yuko shouts at her. Koharu is so scarred that she can't move. She turns her head towards Yuko. Koharu is shaking. Yuko finally seems to realize what's happening, but doesn't know what to do.

- Suddenly Koharu hears another voice: "Koharu!"

> "Huh? Who?", Koharu asks.

- You have to run...NOW!

> Re....

- "HURRY!", the voice shouts.

> Ah?! Yes!

So how come Shoji can't move? And what about that voice? It seems to know Koharu; might it be one of the voices of the "original" group of girls who banded together in the past?

Koharu is finally able to overcome her fear and confusion. She starts to run towards the exit. Suddenly something grabs her arm. Koharu turns around. She isn't able to identify it. All of a sudden something punches her very hard in the stomach. She gets smashed against the wall and drops the weapon. She is loosing her breath. The thing more and more transforms into a person. Koharu can see a grin right before she gets tossed to the center of the hall. Like if the punch wasn't enough already. Yuko immediately checks on her.

~ "Do you really think that shooting him will solve your problem?", the 'person' says.

- "You...", Shinzu suddenly says.

> Shoji looks at Yuko and Koharu: "I told you to hurry....damn..."

~ Oh! How cute, an admin.

Ok, both Shoji and Shinzu definitely know who this mystery person is.  From this brief description he sounds like he might be one of the shadow guys. Are they the enemy that the girls were destined to fight?

The girls look scarred and confused. Shoji starts to talk.

> "Itzo...", he says.

So the thing's name is Itzo...

- "See, it was too late to run. I got all your, oh-so-powerful, girls.", the person, Itzo, answers.

> Shoji notices that three girls are missing: "I see."

He's right, Aichan, Eri and Reina aren't there. Let's hope that this Itzo doesn't realize that little fact. It could give the three of them (wherever they are) a chance to find out what's going on and what to do.

~ "Why are you here?", Shinzu lets loose of Risa.

- I am finishing what you couldn't finish.

What the...so Shinzu is in league with Itzo?

Yuko takes the chance to ask Shoji who he is. He explains that he is a wannabe Ho-Masubi. Mitsui heard about him in school already, Ho-Masubi is a god or something like that. Shoji continues and tells them that Itzo actually is a mortal, but he has no explanation for why he is here. Usually he does everything alone. It also looks like he really became at least a half-god. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to cross dimensions. Dimensions? The girls don't get a thing. Anyway, Yuko wants them to try an escape, but Shoji replies that this would be useless. Those creatures are part of him and are still around, even though they are not visible. Itzo can kill them all with one move.

Ah, so chances are then that the girls are supposed to stop Itzo from becoming a full-fledged god. Considering what we've seen of him so far, it would not be advisable to allow him access to omniscience and omnipitence.  Could that be why Shinzu had his guys grab Risa? Could it be that her power has the strength/ability to raise Itzo up to god-hood?

~ "Anyway, you didn't have to come!", Shinzu says.

- "He didn't think so.", Itzo replies.

> "He?", Shoji silently asks himself.

"He"? There's someone else who's higher up in the hierarchy than Itzo?  If there is, just how powerful is this person?

Aichan is scarred and tells her that they captured everyone. Eri replies that she knows, although she doesn't even look inside. "I can feel it", she says. Aichan looks at Eri. "This area is filled with a dark energy, searching for us.", Eri continues. Aichan is confused. Searching for them? Does she mean this weird person? "Those creatures that captured the other girls", Eri explains. Now Aichan is starting to worry. Will they catch them as well? Eri denies, "I can block them for us and Reina.". "Block? Reina?", Aichan asks. Aichan isn't really confused anymore. So many weird things happened already and so she decides to not ask about the blocking or Reina anymore.

Geez, looks like Eri's powers have "awakened", and with it apparently a little bit of knowledge on who/what it is that they're facing.  On top of that, she can conceal their presence from Itzo. Hopefully she can keep this up for a while.

But still...where the hell is Reina?

Itzo finally realizes that there are a three girls missing. He looks around and sends out his creatures, but they find nothing. "But where is...?", Sayumi suddenly says. This was a big mistake.

Ugh, smooth move there Sayu. 

~ Suddenly Shinzu interrupts Itzo: "Itzo..."

> Itzo is becoming angry: "WHAT?"

~ You won't just take over my control here!

> Itzo starts to laugh: "Guess what I just did?"

~ Shinzu forms two of his finger into a big nail or needle like figure. He grabs Risa again and prepares to ram it inside her head. "We will see."

Hmmm...so Shinzu and Itzo might not be in cahoots after all, or at the very least they're not actually fighting for exactly the same goal.  It would appear that Itzo needs Risa, since Shinzu is threatening to kill her. I wonder if it might be that Itzo might hold a position similar to Shinzu, but comes from a different realm. If this is the case, then it would seem that this situation between them is similar to rival gang leaders trying to control or take over the same, new territory.

> You won't...he would kill you..

~ Shinzu strikes out and is ready to ram it inside her head: "Want to place a bet?"

Again they mention this "HE"...does it mean that they all answer to him in some way?

+ "NO!!! RIIISSSSAAAAAAAAAA!", Aichan screams. She ran inside the warehouse when she saw Shinzu preparing the 'needle'.

Oh crud. Cover your eyes, the fireworks are gonna start.

[HPriest]

Episode 11 - Cut

Shinzu got interrupted by Aichan who suddenly appeared in the hall. "What the fuck?", he says. Itzo also is a bit surprised, since he couldn't sense her arrival. Eri doesn't show herself, yet. Aichan continues to run towards Shinzu and Risa. "Not so fast", Itzo tells her. She ignores him, but gets stopped in a rough way by running against something. This is odd, because she didn't see anything in front of her. Aichan gets back on her feet, ignoring the pain. There is nothing. She puts out her hand and finally realizes what stopped her. It's an invisible wall. Itzo must have created it just now. He starts to laugh at her. Shinzu sees his chance and continues. Aichan is desperate. She can't get through to her, the wall is everywhere. Itzo is amused, but Aichan is mad angry. However, she doesn't really know how to use her powers. Her try to just look at him, waiting for something to happen, fails. Itzo quickly changed from amused to annoyed. He still has to deal with Shinzu and Aichan only wastes his time. Aichan still looks at him. He points at her and swings his hand only a little bit. This little move causes Aichan to fly back and hit the wall.

Shinzu still hasn't rammed the needle inside Risa's head. He has to find the exact spot in order to get her energy. The slightest difference would only cause her death. Itzo turns around to him. Now he probably found the right spot. Shinzu strikes out, moves the 'needle' towards her head and.....stops...a few inches away from her head. He coughs. Hideaki is confused and so is Itzo. Itzo actually didn't do anything. Shinzu now coughs blood and looses the strength of his arm.

The girls and even Shoji are confused as well. Shoji looks like he is thinking. Then he gets it. He looks at Yuko. "We might have a chance.", he says. Yuko is confused and looks back at Shinzu. She tries to concentrate. There is something behind Shinzu, but she can't make out what it is.

Shinzu is in a state of shock and pain. He now lost every strength in his arm. Risa gets released from his grip and drops to the ground. Blood is dripping from his hand. At his back his clothes get soaked with blood. Suddenly blood starts coming out of his neck. Hideaki still looks at him with confusion. He doesn't understand what's happening. Slowly the head of Shinzu starts slip down his neck and falls to the ground, what a sight.. . Hideaki is shocked and has to sit down. He now also sees the strange thing behind Shinzu, who's body falls to the side with countless of blood flowing out of it. Fear starts to rise within him. Hideaki gets back on his feet and runs towards the door. He reaches the closed door, but isn't able to open it anymore. An iron bar pierces through his body and literally nails hit him at the door. The bar got sharpened before it got thrown. What the hell is happening?

Itzo looked at everything with high interest. He might be confused, but not scarred like Hideaki.

"Who is there?", Itzo asks and walks towards Shinzu's dead body, looking around the hall.

"Yuko, Shoji!", a well-known voice suddenly calls them both.

"....Reina?", Yuko asks.

It indeed is Reina's voice. "When I give you the signal, you bring all girls to the front entrance and hurry.", she says

"Alright, let's go.", Shoji agrees and tries to help the other girls up, but he is actually the one who needs help to get up.

"Aichan!", the voice of Reina now calls. Aichan is actually a couple of meters away from the group.

"Reina?", Aichan asks and looks around. There is no Reina around.

"You can't see me.", Reina continues, "Listen, get Risa as soon as I give you a signal and bring her to the front entrance. The others are going there, too."

"Eh?...and what about Itzo?", Aichan asks.

"Don't worry, just get Risa.", Reina answers.

Now Eri hears Reina calling for her, "Reina?".

"Yes, listen carefully! The girls are coming out now. You have to heal Mikitty first and then Risa as soon as Aichan brings her to you.", Reina explains to Eri.

"....alright..?", Eri answers with a slight confusion.

Itzo notices that Yuko and the others stood up. He doesn't really what he is seeing and walks towards them. Now Reina gives Aichan the signal to get Risa as long as Itzo is focusing on the other girls. After this she tells the others to start walking. First they are unsure about Itzo, but Reina asks them to trust her. It's odd, but Itzo really doesn't do anything else than approaching them slowly. He seems to enjoy when his enemies try to run away. However, he still is curious about the mystical death of Shinzu and walks very carefully. Itzo is well aware of that somebody else is in the warehouse.

The group reaches the front entrance and call for Eri, but Eri doesn't want to walk any closer to Itzo. She can feel his aura and the closer her gets the more pain she has. Aichan also successfully picked up Risa. She is able to carry her on her back, despite her own wounds caused by Itzo's attack earlier. Aichan is almost at the entrance, when Itzo finally notices her. He now becomes angry, he had enough enjoyment now. Those girls are starting to get on his nerves. Itzo points at Aichan again and both know what this means. "Not again", Aichan thinks. Just when he wants to move his hand to do the attack, a person appears in front of him. Itzo is annoyed by the interruption, but this quickly turns into being surprised, when he finally realizes who the person actually is.

"Reina?", Itzo asks with disbelief, "Are you telling me that you did?"

Reina grins at him and says: "To say it in your own words: 'Do you really think that hurting her will solve your problem?'"

Itzo becomes very angry, "Who do you think YOU are? YOU can't kill me!"

Reina still grins and seems to find him ridiculous, "I might not be able to kill you, but I can do THIS!"

Suddenly Reina becomes all serious and does a very strong attack to his bones (dakentaijutsu). It was so powerful that Itzo got blown away. During his flight he crashes through a lot of pillars. Reina actually planned the exact flying route and the pillars he destroys are mainstays. Itzo lands somewhere at the other side of the warehouse. A part of the whole complex collapses and falls right onto him. Dust fills the area. Reina seems to be satisfied with the result, her plan really worked out.

However, she said it herself. She didn't kill him.

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[I would really appreciate more than one comment only. Thanks again to JFC for all the comments. I always look forward to them and you never let me down...great!]

[JFC]

^ Thanks, I try.

Shinzu got interrupted by Aichan who suddenly appeared in the hall. "What the fuck?", he says. Itzo also is a bit surprised, since he couldn't sense her arrival.

...

She ignores him, but gets stopped in a rough way by running against something. This is odd, because she didn't see anything in front of her. Aichan gets back on her feet, ignoring the pain. There is nothing. She puts out her hand and finally realizes what stopped her. It's an invisible wall. Itzo must have created it just now.

So we know that Itzo has a power similar to Aichan's in that he can create barriers, however he's obviously bound to be better skilled at it than she is.

Shinzu still hasn't rammed the needle inside Risa's head. He has to find the exact spot in order to get her energy. The slightest difference would only cause her death. Itzo turns around to him. Now he probably found the right spot. Shinzu strikes out, moves the 'needle' towards her head and.....stops...a few inches away from her head. He coughs. Hideaki is confused and so is Itzo. Itzo actually didn't do anything. Shinzu now coughs blood and looses the strength of his arm.

What stopped him? He wasn't somehow dying to begin with, was he? If he was he wouldn't have waited so long to take Risa's energy. So either one of the spirits has intervened, or someone managed to get in a sneak attack on him?

The girls and even Shoji are confused as well. Shoji looks like he is thinking. Then he gets it. He looks at Yuko. "We might have a chance.", he says. Yuko is confused and looks back at Shinzu. She tries to concentrate. There is something behind Shinzu, but she can't make out what it is.

Don't tell me...Reina?

Slowly the head of Shinzu starts slip down his neck and falls to the ground, what a sight.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!

Hideaki gets back on his feet and runs towards the door. He reaches the closed door, but isn't able to open it anymore. An iron bar pierces through his body and literally nails hit him at the door. The bar got sharpened before it got thrown. What the hell is happening?

Shit he got speared? Fuck that's gotta hurt.

"Yuko, Shoji!", a well-known voice suddenly calls them both.

"....Reina?", Yuko asks.

It indeed is Reina's voice. "When I give you the signal, you bring all girls to the front entrance and hurry.", she says

REINA!!!

"Reina?", Aichan asks and looks around. There is no Reina around.

"You can't see me.", Reina continues, "Listen, get Risa as soon as I give you a signal and bring her to the front entrance. The others are going there, too."

"Eh?...and what about Itzo?", Aichan asks.

"Don't worry, just get Risa.", Reina answers.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so Reina's power includes being able to turn invisible. This must mean that she's planning to take on Itzo herself, believing that her invisibility will help her. Let's just hope that she's right and that Itzo can't somehow sense her whereabouts.

Itzo notices that Yuko and the others stood up. He doesn't really what he is seeing and walks towards them. Now Reina gives Aichan the signal to get Risa as long as Itzo is focusing on the other girls. After this she tells the others to start walking. First they are unsure about Itzo, but Reina asks them to trust her. It's odd, but Itzo really doesn't do anything else than approaching them slowly. He seems to enjoy when his enemies try to run away.

Shinzu's mysterious demise must be making Itzo really cautious. One would think that in this situation, he would be trying harder to prevent the girls from leaving and taking Risa with them.

Now, if Reina's invisible, how did Aichan know that she gave the signal? Did she just call it out or something? Unless Itzo, for some reason can't hear them, wouldn't doing that give away her position?

The group reaches the front entrance and call for Eri, but Eri doesn't want to walk any closer to Itzo. She can feel his aura and the closer her gets the more pain she has.

So Eri's ability to sense "evil" works on the fact that being near/around evil brings her pain? That's kind of a sucky power, don't you think?

Aichan is almost at the entrance, when Itzo finally notices her.

When he FINALLY notices her??? What, have the girls been sneaking around behind boxes or something, trying to stay out of Itzo's immediate line of sight? If there isn't anything that they could have used for cover, then Itzo did a lousy job keeping an eye on them.

Itzo points at Aichan again and both know what this means. "Not again", Aichan thinks. Just when he wants to move his hand to do the attack, a person appears in front of him. Itzo is annoyed by the interruption, but this quickly turns into being surprised, when he finally realizes who the person actually is.

"Reina?", Itzo asks with disbelief, "Are you telling me that you did?"

Itzo recognizes her? How?  Reina hasn't been possessed by "spirit Reina" the same way that we saw with Sayu, has she?

Itzo becomes very angry, "Who do you think YOU are? YOU can't kill me!"

Reina still grins and seems to find him ridiculous, "I might not be able to kill you, but I can do THIS!"

Suddenly Reina becomes all serious and does a very strong attack to his bones (dakentaijutsu). It was so powerful that Itzo got blown away. During his flight he crashes through a lot of pillars. Reina actually planned the exact flying route and the pillars he destroys are mainstays. Itzo lands somewhere at the other side of the warehouse. A part of the whole complex collapses and falls right onto him. Dust fills the area. Reina seems to be satisfied with the result, her plan really worked out.

However, she said it herself. She didn't kill him.

Holy shit, Reina just sent him flying across the room like he did to Aichan! Seems safe to say that Reina is powerful enough that he must consider her a threat. And at this point, she doesn't really need to worry about killing him on her own. She just needs to incapacitate him long enough for everyone to escape. That way, they can all recover, find out EXACTLY what they're up against, and formulate a plan to deal with it.

[HPriest]

^ Thanks, I try.

Shinzu's mysterious demise must be making Itzo really cautious. One would think that in this situation, he would be trying harder to prevent the girls from leaving and taking Risa with them.

Now, if Reina's invisible, how did Aichan know that she gave the signal? Did she just call it out or something? Unless Itzo, for some reason can't hear them, wouldn't doing that give away her position?

Reina's voice is like a close whispering. Itzo wouldn't hear it, at least not in my imagination. 

So Eri's ability to sense "evil" works on the fact that being near/around evil brings her pain? That's kind of a sucky power, don't you think?

It's only a side-effect of her powers. You also have to consider that she had just awoken and Itzo seems to be quite the evil.
She will probably get used to it and not always fight the pure evil.

When he FINALLY notices her??? What, have the girls been sneaking around behind boxes or something, trying to stay out of Itzo's immediate line of sight? If there isn't anything that they could have used for cover, then Itzo did a lousy job keeping an eye on them.

Itzo was concentrating on the group with Yuko,Shoji,Koharu...and so on. Aichan isn't in this group. Itzo doesn't notice Aichan during his "fun" with the others. Later, when Aichan reaches the front entrance as well, he finally notices her...Aichan.
Summary: Itzo got distracted by his on enjoyment and didn't notice Aichan.

 

I didn't comment on everything to avoid possible spoilers.

[HPriest]

Episode 12 - Onawaban

The front side didn't collapse. Reina is really satisfied with the outcome of her plan. Anyway, there is no time to relax. She goes to other girls. Mikitty is already standing again. Eri healed her like she had been told. Next on the list would be Risa. Aichan is holding her hand, but Reina tells her that she will be alright.

"Aren't we trying to run away?", Koharu asks while waiting for somebody to give the signal to leave.

Shoji looks at Koharu. He looks thoughtful. Shoji turns eyes to Reina, "We are not leaving, aren't we?"

"No, he would catch as within seconds.", Reina answers with a calm voice, looking down to Risa.

"What? We have to run! Are you insane?", Koharu doesn't agree.

"May I ask why you are so powerful, Reina?", Yuko enters the discussion.

Reina stops looking at Risa, "What? I didn't understand you."

"Your power.", Yuko repeats.

Reina looks at Shoji, but he seems to want to know the same thing. "Even you as an admin doesn't know?"

"What?"

"Aren't you feeling a slight difference? However, I am the ancient Reina."

"WHAT?", Mikitty suddenly shouts.

"I didn't know that you are able to do this....This was a rumor....wasn't it?", Shoji asks with fascination.

"Do what?", Yuko asks.

"I took over Reina's body in order to help you in the fight.", Reina explains, "It's a well hidden secret of us 'Onbawan'."

"I don't understand anything.", Koharu sits down. Too many new and weird things happened to day. The girls can't take anymore.

Reina tries to help them with a short explanation. Today the more common word for "Onbawan" is "Ninja" or "Shinobi". The girls at least heard those things before already. They have a really close connection with their spirits and, although the ancient Reina has been dead for a long time already, she had been able to come back to her body. The current Reina is still present, but only in the background. However, she can't take over her forever. This special technique consumes a lot of energy and as ghost she doesn't have a lot. It looks like the other girls understood the main points.

Reina is concerned, because Risa isn't conscious again. It won't take long and Itzo will be back on his feet. Her plan is to attack him as a team. He is a mortal after all and so they should be able to kill him as a team, but Shoji has to interrupt her. Itzo might not be a mortal anymore. He probably is a half god already. Reina is shocked, but there is no other option. Shoji also knows that there is no other option, but it's still a suicide mission.

Who is able to fight him? Koharu, Mikitty and Yossie. Yuko and Shoji want to fight as well, but Reina doesn't think that it would be a good idea. They are too weak for this fight. Aichan is still holding Risa's hand, but Reina has to interrupt her. She needs her. Aichan is a very important member within the group. "Risa will be okay", Reina tells Aichan over and over again, until Aichan decides to join them. Eri is supposed to continue the healing, although she is becoming tired already. Healing Risa is draining a lot of energy from her, but she won't stop until she is fully recovered. At least Risa isn't dead. "I have to try my best", Eri tells to herself.

Reina, the one with the most experience, tells the others what to do. She starts with Koharu, who has lost all her confidence earlier and doesn't really want to fight again. Mikitty tries to comfort her, but Koharu mentions that she won't be able to feel the confidence without her weapon anymore. Reina looks into the warehouse. She turns around again and suddenly has the weapon in her hand. The girls are more than confused. "Did you teleport?", Mikitty asks. Reina only grins and replies: "Nope.".  Reina tells her to concentrate on the weapon and the feeling she had before. Koharu indeed feels something again. She tries to concentrate now while Reina moves on to the next girl.

Mikitty starts speaking before Reina is even able to say one word, "I am ready!". Reina asks whether she needs a bar, but Mikitty denies. She seems to be really motivated to kick Itzo's ass. "Well, you can never have enough confidence.", Reina says to herself.

Yossie is the only one who still has her weapon. Reina inspects it and asks Shoji if this is his sword.
He nods and Reina starts to think. "If this will work?", she asks herself.

Yossie can overhear her, "Nani?".

"Huh? Oh...you will see.", Reina replies with a grin on her face. Yossie is

Yossie starts to become worried and inspects the sword as well. Reina moves on. Aichan is still looking down to Risa. Reina can understand her, but needs Aichan to focuse. She claps on her shoulders and tells her to concentrate. Aichan is no fighter in the group, but she can do more than shields. One of her abilities is to support and increase the powers of the other girls. Aichan looks confused. Reina tells her to close her eyes and for example concentrate on Yossie. She should be able to sense her close to her. After a few seconds Aichan really seems to be able to feel her. "Good. Now concentrate on her energy flow. It should be easy to identify. Then you try to increase the flow with your own energy. You will feel how your energy is transferring. Don't worry, you have a special energy and are able to support many girls at once without loosing too much energy yourself.", Reina slowly explains. Aichan tries to concentrate on Yossie's energy flow. Yossie is still inspecting the sword, when suddenly it becomes extremely. She burns one of her fingers, "FUCK!". Yossie licks on her finger to cool it. She looks back at the sword and notices that the blade completely turned into a flame, "What the...?". Reina sees this and is relieved. Aichan was successful. This will be a huge help for their fight.

Suddenly they can hear Itzo in the back. He almost freed himself from all the debris. They have to hurry now. Reina checks on Koharu again and it seems like she will be able to fight as well. Risa is still unconscious and Aichan gets distracted again. Reina again has to order her to concentrate again. This time she has to find the flow of all four. Aichan seems to realize that it is important to stay focused now. She searches for all the different energy flows and finds them within seconds. Aichan is ready and starts to increase the energy of every girl. Koharu's gun starts to shimmer, small flashes come out of Mikitty's hand and Yossie's sword is still on fire. A violet aura starts to shine around Reina. It looks like they are all ready, when suddenly Sayumi interrupts their phase of concentration.

"Why am I not allowed to have fun as well?", Sayumi asks with a sad face.

Reina can't really feel any energy within Sayumi. Her whole aura seems to be weird and distracted. She turns to Shoji: "Has there been any sign of powers coming from her?"

"I wished..", Shoji sighs.

"Are you saying that I am useless?", Sayumi starts to become mad.

"You are not useless.", Yuko tries to calm her down.

"So I may fight, too?"

"Fighting..", Reina walks to Sayumi, "..is nothing for such a lovely and fragile being like you. You have a way more important task."

"..this sounds nice. What task?"

"You will stay here and protect the others. You will support us with your presence alone.", Reina continues.

"Like Aichan?", starts to become excited all of a sudden.

"..eh...yeah...like Aichan.", Reina answers and goes back to the other girls.

Shoji is a bit worried. Reina obviously lied to Sayumi, but Reina tells him that Sayumi will be okay. He hopes that Sayumi won't suddenly join the fight. They don't need more unconscious or dead girls today.

Anyway, the fighters and Aichan are ready again. Itzo is finally able to break free. The timing is absolutely perfect. Itzo needed the exact same time to get free, the girls needed to get ready. The girls feel like they are in a bad action movie.

"YOU BITCH!" are Itzo's first words after being free again.

"Is everyone ready?", Reina asks.

"Reina..", Mikitty interrupts.

"What?"

"We really can defeat him?"

"No", Reina answers straightly, "Let's GO!". Reina starts to run towards Itzo.

"...........". All girls are speechless. Mikitty looks at her running towards Itzo and doesn't really know what to think. She looks at Yossie.

"Ah..who cares..I have a freaking sword of fire." Yossie says and follows Reina.

Mikitty looks at Koharu, but she only shrugs and decides to follow her as well.

Lastly she tries to get some smart words from Aichan, but all she says is "Ganbatte!" and smiles.

Mikitty looks back into the warehouse..."....why did I join this group?"

"You are all INSANE!", she says and follows the other girls.

 

[meowz]

A really interesting plot you have going here, though it seems really rushed at some parts.

Episode 12 - Onawaban

"I took over Reina's body in order to help you in the fight.", Reina explains, "It's a well hidden secret of us 'Onbawan'."

"I don't understand anything.", Koharu sits down. Too many new and weird things happened to day. The girls can't take anymore.

Reina tries to help them with a short explanation. Today the more common word for "Onbawan" is "Ninja" or "Shinobi".

Err...wasn't it Oniwaban/Oniwabanshuu (お庭番衆)? 

"We really can defeat him?"

"No", Reina answers straightly, "Let's GO!". Reina starts to run towards Itzo.

"...........". All girls are speechless. Mikitty looks at her running towards Itzo and doesn't really know what to think. She looks at Yossie.

"Ah..who cares..I have a freaking sword of fire." Yossie says and follows Reina.

Mikitty looks at Koharu, but she only shrugs and decides to follow her as well.

Lastly she tries to get some smart words from Aichan, but all she says is "Ganbatte!" and smiles.

Mikitty looks back into the warehouse..."....why did I join this group?"

"You are all INSANE!", she says and follows the other girls.

lol, I liked this part 
Looking forward to the next episode, so keep posting!

[HPriest]

Err...wasn't it Oniwaban/Oniwabanshuu (お庭番衆)?

Oniwabanshū (お庭番衆) is one particular group of ninja.
Oniwaban (お庭番) should be another term for ninja/shinobi in general..
..but maybe I am wrong

A really interesting plot you have going here, though it seems really rushed at some parts.

I am not good with stretching things and my other fanfic is a bit more detailed.
This fic here is supposed to be a bit more faster.

Is it so bad that it destroys the flow?
Maybe I have to take more care and put in more details next time..

[HPriest]

Episode 13 - Black Flames

Reina, Yossie, Koharu and Mikitty apprach Itzo. Aichan stays near the front entrance. She is closing her eyes to concentrate on the other girls. She wants to help the best she can. Itzo is way more angry than before. He looks at the four girls, while the anger rises within him. His body seems to be surrounded by black flames and the girls are becoming a bit frightened. Reina doesn't really care about his appearance and tries the first attack. She creates two daggers and attacks him from the side. Itzo dodges the attack with ease and casts a shock wave into Reina's back. Her reaction is fast enough to block it, but gets pushed back by the wave. Mikitty sees her chance and attacks as well. She targets his head, but Itzo blocks it easily again. Mikitty now tries a fast combination of punches to the face and body, but Itzo is way too fast for her. He makes a counter attack, but Mikitty dodges it perfectly. Koharu shoots a couple of shots from the distance to distract him. Mikitty quickly picks up a bar again and attacks. Itzo surprisingly grabs the bar. Mikitty isn't dumb and sends electric waves through the bar, but Itzo doesn't seem to care at all. Suddenly the bar gets too hot for her and so she has to let loose of it. Itzo heated it up to take away her weapon. Yossie comes to help, but Itzo blocks her sword attacks with the bar. During their fight, Mikitty prepares for a lightning attack. Itzo now has to concentrate on two girls. While he still blocks Yossie's attacks, he shoots a fireball at Mikitty. Mikitty is too concentrated and can't dodge, but Aichan suddenly appears in front of her to block the fireball. Itzo is surprised and gets even more angry. He continues to block Yossie's attacks, when he all of a sudden can sense Reina above him. Reina prepared for a surprise attack and is almost ready. Itzo quickly has to dodge, but Yossie is keeping him busy. With one strong attack, he is able to slap the sword out of Yossie's hand. Yossie doesn't know what to do. Itzo throws the bar at her, but she can duck in time. For now she decides to back off, the sword is too close to Itzo. He now completely concentrates on Reina, although Mikitty is also preparing for an attack. Odd is that Reina waited for him to concentrate on her again before making her attack. It's a dagger attack again. Reina literally nosedives, but the attack was way too slow for Itzo. He just steps to the side, suddenly somebody attacks him from behind. Itzo completely fell for Reina's trap. The girl in the air only was a copy of herself she created in order to attack him from the back. Reina's attack are very fast and first Itzo isn't able to block them. After a couple of heavy hits, Itzo is finally able to break free. He has to do something about Reina and sees Yossie's sword on the ground. Before reaching the sword, he gets hit by Koharu's shots. This time they seem to be more powerful and he can feel the impacts on his body. Itzo quickly casts a black firewall as protection, but it was not on the right spot to block Mikitty's attack. All he can do is blocking it. It looks like the attacks of the girls really start to have an effect on him. He doesn't look like he is blocking their attacks without pain anymore.

Reina suddenly appears in front of Yossie and gives her the sword again. She must have quickly picked it up again like Koharu's weapon earlier. Itzo doesn't seem to take care of her at all. Reina must have noticed this and wants Yossie to try her strongest attack. The sword is starting to burn again. Aichan really stays on top of things and gives the majority of her energy to Yossie. Yossie is surprised by the increasing power of the flame. She decides to go with an attack from the distance. Yossie concentrates and moves her sword exactly like in close-combat. It seems to work. Many powerful waves of fire and energy fly towards Itzo. The first attacks directly hit him in the back. She increases her movements to power up her attacks. Itzo needs all his concentration to block them. He also tries to dodge them, but the attacks seem to follow him. It looks like that Yossie's concentration creates real homing attacks. This is the perfect chance for the others to attack him from the other sides. Koharu focuses all her energy and aims right at his head. Of course, he doesn't die, but Koharu's attacks are painful and distract him a lot. Reina shoots some daggers from the other side, injuring him even more. Mikitty picks up another bar again and charges it up with energy. She approaches him and deals a very powerful hit at his back with an incredible discharge. The attack with the bar hurls him towards a wall where he gets smashed.

The girls get a short pause to relax again. Koharu asks Reina whether they won, but she quickly answers with a shake of her head. There is no way they could defeat him and Reina orders them to focus all their energy again. The girls don't understand why they keep on fighting, although they can't defeat him. Reina can understand them and looks at Eri who still not healed Risa, when suddenly she makes a surprised face.

"What's up?", Mikitty asks Reina who became silent all of a sudden.

Yossie walks towards her, "Did something happen?"

"I don't know", Reina asks.

"Did we win after all?" Koharu asks jokingly, but Reina suddenly answers "Yes..."

The girls a surprised and confused. Did they really defeat him?

"I...I can't feel his presence anymore.", Reina explains.

"Maybe he ran away?", Mikitty asks and laughs.

"WAIT!", Reina shouts all of a sudden.

Koharu gets scarred and holds up her weapon, "What?"

"He still is here, but not in his body.", Reina tells the others with a slight confusion.

"What? Where is he?", Yossie asks and becomes nervous.

"He seems to be everywhere. He turned into air or fog, something a god or half-god is able to do.", Reina continues.

"Omg..what? Such a coward...", Mikitty looks at the roof, looking whether she can see him somewhere.

Reina feels that his energy is concentrating on one spot again. It looks like he is transforming into a body again. She concentrates to find out where he is going to appear. Suddenly she opens her eyes with shock. The girls ask them where he is. Reina turns her head towards the front entrance and notices how far away they are from it. She finally realizes what his plan is.

"AICHAN!", Reina shouts, making the other girls all confused.

Apparently Aichan doesn't seem to notice her. She is still all concentrated to increase the powers of them, since she still can feel Itzo presence. The problem is that she has no energy left to localize where he is. Outside, Shoji and Yuko heard Reina, but don't know what's happening.

"What is happening?", Shoji asks

"I don't know. Something seems to be with Aichan." Yuko replies. "Wait", she continues, "there!"

"What?"

"There, in front of Aichan. Something is forming..Itzo!", Yuko gets a shock.

"Oh my god, AICHAN!", Shoji now also shouts.

Yossie and the others can also see him now and shout at Aichan, too. Aichan is finally becoming curious, decreases her concentration and opens her eyes. Shock! She sees Itzo right in front of her. Aichan is rigid with fear and not able to cast a shield. Itzo forms his arm into a sharp lance like thing. The other girls tell her to run. Slowly she starts to move and a weak shield starts to shimmer around her, but it's too late. He rams his whole home into her upper body, breaking the shield. Itzo literally speared Aichan in a cruel kind of way. He moves back his arm, leaving her with a hole as big as a soccer ball. Slowly she drops to her knees. The calls of the others are becoming tubby. Aichan looses her consciousness and falls to the ground. The girls stop running towards her, it's useless now. They only look at her with disbelief. Itzo really killed her. There is no way she could have survived this. An uncomfortable silence fills the warehouse.

[chokkan 2]

Aichan !!!!!!!!!!!!

[JFC]

Summary: Itzo got distracted by his on enjoyment and didn't notice Aichan.

Ah...see, this is why bad guys have henchmen.

I didn't comment on everything to avoid possible spoilers.

Thank you.

"Aren't we trying to run away?", Koharu asks while waiting for somebody to give the signal to leave.

Shoji looks at Koharu. He looks thoughtful. Shoji turns eyes to Reina, "We are not leaving, aren't we?"

"No, he would catch as within seconds.", Reina answers with a calm voice, looking down to Risa.

So I guess Eri's ability to conceal their presence would no longer be effective since Itzo now knows what their "auras" feel like? Or maybe it's just because there are many more of them now?

"May I ask why you are so powerful, Reina?", Yuko enters the discussion.

...

 I am the ancient Reina."

"WHAT?", Mikitty suddenly shouts.

So spirit-Reina has possessed Reina's body, and unlike spirit-Sayu earlier, is able to "interfere", "affect", or "participate" in the events as they happen?

How the hell did she manage that?

"I took over Reina's body in order to help you in the fight.", Reina explains, "It's a well hidden secret of us 'Onbawan'."

If any of them are named "Kenobi"...
 

* JFC wonders if anyone will get the bad joke he just made.

Reina tries to help them with a short explanation. Today the more common word for "Onbawan" is "Ninja" or "Shinobi". The girls at least heard those things before already. They have a really close connection with their spirits and, although the ancient Reina has been dead for a long time already, she had been able to come back to her body. The current Reina is still present, but only in the background. However, she can't take over her forever. This special technique consumes a lot of energy and as ghost she doesn't have a lot. It looks like the other girls understood the main points.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...so the ancient group of girls that the girls are descended from were ninjas. That makes sense. They were known to dabble in the black/mystic arts and what not.  That must be part of the reason why they're able to bring themselves from their realm of reality to ours.

Itzo will be back on his feet. Her plan is to attack him as a team. He is a mortal after all and so they should be able to kill him as a team, but Shoji has to interrupt her. Itzo might not be a mortal anymore. He probably is a half god already.

If Itzo is a demigod, it would explain the power that he has.  The question then is how did he become so? If they can find that out they might be able to come up with a way to stop him.

Reina, the one with the most experience, tells the others what to do. She starts with Koharu, who has lost all her confidence earlier and doesn't really want to fight again. Mikitty tries to comfort her, but Koharu mentions that she won't be able to feel the confidence without her weapon anymore. Reina looks into the warehouse. She turns around again and suddenly has the weapon in her hand. The girls are more than confused. "Did you teleport?", Mikitty asks. Reina only grins and replies: "Nope.".  Reina tells her to concentrate on the weapon and the feeling she had before. Koharu indeed feels something again.

Being the youngest, of course Koharu's going to have a lot of anxiety. Had she had more time to practice and get used to her powers, she probably would be confident enough and have better ability to fight without depending on a weapon (which she probably doesn't really need, as it seems she amplifies IT'S ability, not the other way around).

Yossie is the only one who still has her weapon. Reina inspects it and asks Shoji if this is his sword.
He nods and Reina starts to think. "If this will work?", she asks herself.

Yossie can overhear her, "Nani?".

"Huh? Oh...you will see.", Reina replies with a grin on her face.

Sounds like spirit-Reina has something special planned involving that sword and/or Yossi.

Aichan is no fighter in the group, but she can do more than shields. One of her abilities is to support and increase the powers of the other girls.

The teleporting can come in handy, especially if one of the girls need to be quickly removed from a dangerous situation or if they can be moved to take advantage of an opening.

Reina tells her to close her eyes and for example concentrate on Yossie. She should be able to sense her close to her. After a few seconds Aichan really seems to be able to feel her. "Good. Now concentrate on her energy flow. It should be easy to identify. Then you try to increase the flow with your own energy. You will feel how your energy is transferring. Don't worry, you have a special energy and are able to support many girls at once without loosing too much energy yourself.", Reina slowly explains. Aichan tries to concentrate on Yossie's energy flow. Yossie is still inspecting the sword, when suddenly it becomes extremely. She burns one of her fingers, "FUCK!". Yossie licks on her finger to cool it. She looks back at the sword and notices that the blade completely turned into a flame, "What the...?". Reina sees this and is relieved. Aichan was successful. This will be a huge help for their fight.

Whoa sweet!   One question though, if Aichan does this, how much does she have to maintain her concentration on the weapon itself to keep it "powered up"? Will she be able to do this for all of the girls or only one at a time?

"Why am I not allowed to have fun as well?", Sayumi asks with a sad face.

Reina can't really feel any energy within Sayumi. Her whole aura seems to be weird and distracted. She turns to Shoji: "Has there been any sign of powers coming from her?"

"I wished..", Shoji sighs.

Zing.

"Are you saying that I am useless?", Sayumi starts to become mad.

"You are not useless.", Yuko tries to calm her down.

"So I may fight, too?"

"Fighting..", Reina walks to Sayumi, "..is nothing for such a lovely and fragile being like you. You have a way more important task."

"..this sounds nice. What task?"

"You will stay here and protect the others. You will support us with your presence alone.", Reina continues.

"Like Aichan?", starts to become excited all of a sudden.

"..eh...yeah...like Aichan.", Reina answers and goes back to the other girls.

Nice recovery, makes Sayu feel better AND if she does as she's told and stays there...keeps her out of the others' way and thus, out of danger.

"YOU BITCH!" are Itzo's first words after being free again.

"Is everyone ready?", Reina asks.

"Reina..", Mikitty interrupts.

"What?"

"We really can defeat him?"

"No", Reina answers straightly, "Let's GO!". Reina starts to run towards Itzo.

Now why the FUCK would she tell them "no"??? 

"...........". All girls are speechless. Mikitty looks at her running towards Itzo and doesn't really know what to think. She looks at Yossie.

"Ah..who cares..I have a freaking sword of fire." Yossie says and follows Reina.

Mikitty looks at Koharu, but she only shrugs and decides to follow her as well.

 

Lastly she tries to get some smart words from Aichan, but all she says is "Ganbatte!" and smiles.

What else is there to say? Aichan needs to concentrate now. 

Mikitty looks back into the warehouse..."....why did I join this group?"

"You are all INSANE!", she says and follows the other girls.

I wonder, does she mean the forum that Shoji's from or MM? 

[HPriest]

Episode 14 - The End

Aichan lays on the ground, but instead of tears there is only silence. It came too fast and too surprisingly. The girls are also still full of adrenalin. It feels like the girls still haven't realized what just happened. Well, you can't really blame them.

Of course, Itzo is the only one with a good mood now. With the death Aichan they all loose the supportive energy. The flame of Yossie's sword disappears. There is no overflowing energy around the girls anymore. "Let's see how good you are without her help", Itzo says and rushes towards the girls. Reina breaks out of the shock and notices Itzo. He is directly aiming at Yossie and Reina tries to warn her. Yossie also wakes up from the shock, but it's too late. Itzo shoots her through the whole hall with a powerful push. This helped Mikitty and Koharu to clear their minds as well. Quick Reina orders Mikitty to check on Yossie. Meanwhile Reina tries to attack Itzo a few times, but every attempt gets blocked like nothing. Her power is decreasing. She is more powerful than the other girls, but the ancient Reina looses her strength more and more. Soon she will have to disconnect from the body. To make it even worse, Itzo seems more powerful now after he killed Aichan. He must have absorbed a bit of her energy.

Reina has to catch her breath, when she notices something. She stares at something and suddenly straightens herself again.

"Koharu!", she calls, "follow Mikitty and tell them to leave!"

"What?", Koharu is confused.

"Don't ask, do it!", Reina shouts.

Itzo only smiles. He thinks that Reina wants to be the solo-hero who dies in the end, but Reina denies it when he asks her.

"You don't understand anything.", Reina adds.

Her pertly mouth pisses him off. "You will die now!"

"Try it.", Reina provokes him even more.

Itzo starts to attack Reina. Her tactic seems to dodge as many as possible attacks. She doesn't even try to attack him. There is no way to dodge all of his attacks and so she has to takes a lot of hits.

"Reina!", Shoji calls her with telepathy, "RI.."

"I know", Reina interrupts him, "get the others out of her fast!"

"But..."

"Don't care about me. Now it's important to save as many girls as possible. Reina, me, won't be one of them."

"I can't..."

"You will!"

"...fine.."

They end the conversation. In the end, Shoji agreed to leave Reina behind. He tells Yuko and the others to go.

"What about the others and Ri..", Yuko asks.

"It's fine. It's meant to end this way.", Shoji says and it's obvious that he doesn't really believe this himself.

Shoji grabs Mitsui and Sayumi, telling them to go. Eri looks at the warehouse, but decides to listen to Shoji and follows them. Yuko doesn't want to leave, but she can't do anything. She joins Eri and together they follow Shoji.

A weird atmosphere and tensions lies in the air. Thick clouds block the sun and the wind starts to increase. Reina still fights with Itzo, still without any attacks coming from her. Suddenly she hears somebody calling for her, it's Mikitty. Yossie and Koharu are also with her. They didn't leave the warehouse like ordered.

Reina tells them to leave, but their answer is clear: "We won't run away and leave you behind just like that."

"It's not the right time now to show what great kind of friend you are, LEAVE!", Reina shouts at them with all her voice has to offer.

The discussions gets interrupted by the remaining rooftops breaking loose and flying away. It becomes really windy all of sudden. A storm is brewing, announcing itself with heavy thunders. The girls look around and even Itzo pauses his attacks, but not for long. It's only a boring storm. He continues to attack Reina. Mikitty is able to look at the entrance now, but didn't expect to see THIS.

"RISA?!", she shouts.

Yossie and Koharu are confused and look at her as well. They are as surprised as Mikitty. "Risa...", Yossie says to herself.

"Mmmh?", Itzo becomes curious.

Reina actually doesn't want him to notice Risa and finally attacks him without any effect. He slaps her and she falls to the ground. Itzo asks Mikitty about what she just said. Mikitty is still speechless. His curiosity tells him to turn around, but Reina interrupts him again. Itzo is surprised about her ability to endure pain. However, he doesn't want to play with Reina anymore. Once again she hits the ground after one of his attacks. Itzo turns around and finally can see Risa.

"Damn it", Reina says.

"RISA!!!?", Itzo is surprised. Somehow he wasn't able to sense her.

Risa stands in the center of the entrance. Her eyes focus on Itzo. She looks at him with a very serious look. Every muscle in her body seems to tensed up. An electromagnetic field built up around her. It's already huge, but it's still growing. Every centimeter it grows, the wind starts to become more intensive. Is she causing the storm and the wind? Risa focuses every drop of energy she can find within her body. It doesn't look like she is finished yet. Reina's plan was to give her more time, but Mikitty accidentally drew attention to Risa. Itzo is not really happy about what he sees. Risa is getting way too strong and he is too far away from her. Reina lured him into the trap. She made him move more into the warehouse during their fighting. Itzo is smart enough to realize what Reina did and shoots a shock wave at her. She gets shot through the hall and Yossie runs to Reina. Now Itzo has to deal with Risa before dealing with the others.

Itzo walks towards Risa. The field around her is growing very fast and at a certain point he starts to struggle. He isn't able to get any closer to her. The field even pushes him back. He gets angry, but probably also a bit scarred. Itzo casts a black fireball and shoots it at Risa. He is surprised. The field simply sucked in the fireball. It vanished right at the border of the shield. The growth of the field speeds up now. Itzo tries to destroy it with all kind of attacks. Mikitty and Koharu are getting scarred and run towards Yossie. Yossie carries Reina in her hands. She must have lost her consciousness after the last attack. The ancient Reina lost her strength and had to disconnect. Reina herself probably wasn't able to endure all the pain and became unconscious. However, the girls finally decide to leave the hall as fast as possible.

Risa raises her arms, pointing her palms towards Itzo. The field doesn't grow anymore, but the energy within rises even more. Flagstones float around her and the whole ground starts to shake. Itzo doesn't try to attack anymore. He doesn't know what could destroy this enormous field.

Suddenly Sayumi runs back to the warehouse. Shoji is confused and tries to catch her again. She stops a few steps aways from the electromagnetic field.

"Sayumi, we have to get out of here!"

In a very calm and quiet way she responses, "no...."

"You..", Risa suddenly starts to talk to Itzo. She also opened her eyes again.

"Reina, REINA!", Mikitty tries to wake up Reina. They almost reached the door.

Koharu looks back at Risa, "This doesn't look good."

"We should get out of her, quick!", Yossie suggests.

"...killed...", Risa continues. She talks very slow and with big pauses between the words. It could be because there is no energy left for speaking or because she is in a wild rage.

"SAYUMI!", Shoji urges.

"Shoji!", Yuko suddenly claps in his shoulder. She came back to see what's wrong as well.

Shoji isn't really happy to see her here. "Damn it....SAYUMI!!!!!!!!!"

"....Aichan.", Risa continues.

Yossie looses her strength. She can't carry Reina anymore and stumbles. Mikitty and Koharu notice this and stop. It seems like Yossie hurt her foot. She can't stand up again. Mikitty wants to help her up, but Yossie wants them to hurry and leave.

"No way!", Mikitty makes it clear that she won't leave without her.

Koharu is a bit unsure, but decides to stay with Yossie as well. Yossie can't help it. Together with Mikitty's help, she is able to get back on her feet. Koharu picks up Reina. They continue to walk away, but very slowly.

"Shoji!", Yuko doesn't know what to do anymore.

He looks at Yuko. "We can't leave Sayumi behind. I have to protect as many girls as possible!"

"I ..... will .....", Risa starts to concentrate.

The whole ground starts to shake like during an earthquake. The remaining structure of the warehouse starts to collapse and floats around her like the rest of the debris. Suddenly the wind starts to blow extremely strong. Yossie and the others aren't able to move anymore. Shoji and Yuko also struggle and have to crouch. Eri and Mitsui are holding each other. Only Sayumi doesn't seem to struggle. In fact, it looks like she doesn't feel any wind at all.

Shoji looks at her, "What  the.."

Meanwhile, Itzo started to concentrate as well. He won't let Risa win this fight. "You won't defeat me!", he shouts at her.

"....KILL YOU!!", are Risa's last words.

A bright light starts to fill the field. The wind suddenly stops. All the debris falls to the ground. Shoji covers his eyes. The light disappears. Everyone looks at Risa. The whole field disappeared. Risa absorbed everything. Itzo is confused. She still stares at Itzo, her hands pointing at him. About 10 seconds pass until Risa suddenly makes a loud scream. All the anger breaks out at once. The whole air around her explodes. A bright ray of concentrated energy shoots towards Itzo. It's too fast for Itzo to react. He gets hit by the whole ray. The impact causes an enormous explosion.

The power of the explosions is incredible. A heavy blast wave shoots through Tokyo, bursting millions of windows within an instant. There is no time for the people to ask what happened, because already after a certain delay comes the bang and rolls through the streets. A huge fireball fills the whole area around the warehouse with fire. Almost the whole harbor gets destroyed. A huge mushroom cloud starts to form. Dirt and dust fills the area around the explosion. People stop with whatever they were doing. Cars crash into each other. Nobody concentrates on the road anymore. Seconds pass before the first people start to panic and scream. Wind caused by the explosions blows through the streets, transporting the dust further into the city. Some people realize that it wasn't a nuclear explosion, their mobile phones and other electronic devices still work, but they are still confused. What did just happen? Why is there a huge mushroom cloud right in Tokyo? Did somebody attack them?

The explosion destroyed the whole harbor, but what happened to the girls?
Did her blind rage cause her to kill them all?

[JFC]

Dammit how the hell did I miss Ep.13??? O_O

Ep.13

Itzo is way more angry than before. He looks at the four girls, while the anger rises within him. His body seems to be surrounded by black flames and the girls are becoming a bit frightened.

So Itzo still has something left in him, huh?

While he still blocks Yossie's attacks, he shoots a fireball at Mikitty. Mikitty is too concentrated and can't dodge, but Aichan suddenly appears in front of her to block the fireball.

So Aichan's using her teleporting and shield generating abilities to protect the girls when they're open to attack. Let's just hope that in doing so, she doesn't leave herself open.

Reina prepared for a surprise attack and is almost ready. Itzo quickly has to dodge, but Yossie is keeping him busy.

...

He now completely concentrates on Reina, although Mikitty is also preparing for an attack.

Looks like the girls are going for the simultaneous attack strategy. The more they can keep it up, the more likely that at least one of them will get an open shot at him.

"I...I can't feel his presence anymore.", Reina explains.

I call decoy or trap.

"He still is here, but not in his body.", Reina tells the others with a slight confusion.

"What? Where is he?", Yossie asks and becomes nervous.

"He seems to be everywhere. He turned into air or fog, something a god or half-god is able to do.", Reina continues.

"Omg..what? Such a coward...", Mikitty looks at the roof, looking whether she can see him somewhere.

It might seem cowardly, but you gotta admit, it's working. Itzo's keeping the girls guessing as to where he is, while he's giving himself time to rest and recuperate.

Reina feels that his energy is concentrating on one spot again. It looks like he is transforming into a body again. She concentrates to find out where he is going to appear. Suddenly she opens her eyes with shock. The girls ask them where he is. Reina turns her head towards the front entrance and notices how far away they are from it. She finally realizes what his plan is.

"AICHAN!", Reina shouts, making the other girls all confused.

Oh fuck, he figured out that Aichan was the one giving the girls the boost in energy!

"There, in front of Aichan. Something is forming..Itzo!", Yuko gets a shock.

"Oh my god, AICHAN!", Shoji now also shouts.

AICHAN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  



Ep.14

With the death Aichan they all loose the supportive energy. The flame of Yossie's sword disappears. There is no overflowing energy around the girls anymore. "Let's see how good you are without her help", Itzo says

Shit, the girls don't stand a chance now. Even spirit-Reina couldn't really do anything and she's the most powerful one there, not needing any extra energy from Aichan.   

Reina has to catch her breath, when she notices something. She stares at something and suddenly straightens herself again.

"Koharu!", she calls, "follow Mikitty and tell them to leave!"

"What?", Koharu is confused.

"Don't ask, do it!", Reina shouts.

Itzo only smiles. He thinks that Reina wants to be the solo-hero who dies in the end, but Reina denies it when he asks her.

What's spirit-Reina up to, and what was it that she was looking at?

"You don't understand anything.", Reina adds.

Her pertly mouth pisses him off. "You will die now!"

"Try it.", Reina provokes him even more.

Itzo starts to attack Reina. Her tactic seems to dodge as many as possible attacks. She doesn't even try to attack him. There is no way to dodge all of his attacks and so she has to takes a lot of hits.

Looks like Reina's stalling for time. But why? It's not like Itzo's been getting that fatigued.

"Reina!", Shoji calls her with telepathy, "RI.."

Ri...Risa??? Oh shit, when she sees what's happened to Aichan, she's gonna lose it!

"I know", Reina interrupts him, "get the others out of her fast!"

"But..."

"Don't care about me. Now it's important to save as many girls as possible. Reina, me, won't be one of them."

Oh no...with all that's been going on, we've kind of forgotten that Risa was the reason that they all were there in the first place. She seems to be the most powerful one there (or at least have the most potential for power). If she can tap into that now...the results can be devastating.

A weird atmosphere and tensions lies in the air. Thick clouds block the sun and the wind starts to increase.

...

The discussions gets interrupted by the remaining rooftops breaking loose and flying away. It becomes really windy all of sudden. A storm is brewing, announcing itself with heavy thunders. The girls look around and even Itzo pauses his attacks, but not for long. It's only a boring storm.  He continues to attack Reina. Mikitty is able to look at the entrance now, but didn't expect to see THIS.

"RISA?!", she shouts.

That's obviously no storm, at least, not a naturally occurring one.  Risa must have already recovered, which likely means that she knows what happened. Oh the shit's gonna fly now.

Reina's plan was to give her more time, but Mikitty accidentally drew attention to Risa. Itzo is not really happy about what he sees. Risa is getting way too strong and he is too far away from her. Reina lured him into the trap.

So THAT's why spirit-Reina was just dodging all of his attacks like that. Even though he physically might not get as fatigued, he's still expending energy. That, combined with the extra time given to let pissed-off Risa power up...they might have actually had a chance to stop him.

Suddenly Sayumi runs back to the warehouse. Shoji is confused and tries to catch her again. She stops a few steps aways from the electromagnetic field.

"Sayumi, we have to get out of here!"

In a very calm and quiet way she responses, "no...."

Oh god, what's Sayu doing?

The whole ground starts to shake like during an earthquake. The remaining structure of the warehouse starts to collapse and floats around her like the rest of the debris. Suddenly the wind starts to blow extremely strong. Yossie and the others aren't able to move anymore. Shoji and Yuko also struggle and have to crouch. Eri and Mitsui are holding each other. Only Sayumi doesn't seem to struggle. In fact, it looks like she doesn't feel any wind at all.

Shoji looks at her, "What  the.."

Sayu's not affected by the storm??? Has her power finally awakened??? WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING!?!?

"You..", Risa suddenly starts to talk to Itzo. She also opened her eyes again.

...

"...killed..."

...

"....Aichan."

...

"I ..... will .....", Risa starts to concentrate.

...

"....KILL YOU!!", are Risa's last words.

...

The explosion destroyed the whole harbor, but what happened to the girls?
Did her blind rage cause her to kill them all?

Please no...

[HPriest]

Episode 15 - Aftermath~Endlessness Part 1

The sound of horns and turned on alarm systems are mixed with the sound of sirens. Police and emergency services rush to the scene. Most of the people know that it wasn't a nuclear explosion, but a few still try to get out of the city. The dust starts to abate and you get a clearer view to the harbor. A bit further away you can see people looking at the TV sets of an electronic discount. Almost every channel interrupted their program to report live about the events. Let's listen to what the female newscaster has to say.

"Abe Toru, one of our local reporters in Tokyo, is near the scene. Toru, can you hear me?"
- "...Y...Yes, I can hear you."
"Can you tell us where exactly you are?"
- "We are in Odaba right now, but it looks like we have to leave soon."
"Is there anything new you can tell us?"
- "People here say that it definitely was no nuclear explosion. The cause of it is till unknown. The fire department is still extinguishing the last open fires. Can you see it?"
"Yes, terrible..there still seems to be a lot of smoke everywhere. Are there any informations about casualties?"
- "No, we are still trying to get a number. Right now the military is arriving at the scene and takes over the control. They already told us that they will cordon off the whole bay of Tokyo. We will try to get a good view from the Rainbow Bridge. Yes, we have to move now."
"Thanks. This was Abe Toru, live from Odaiba in the bay of Tokyo. He said it already, but now it's official; It was no nuclear explosion! The government advices the citizens to stay calm and not to panic. It's not sure whether it was an attack or an accident. They will check the whole area now. Now we will make a short commercial brake, the news ticker will remain at the bottom of the screen. After the brake we will be back with an expert explaining the different kind of explosions and why it's clear that it wasn't a nuclear bomb."


"Hitomi...."

"...wake up....Hitomi.."

Yossie slowly awakes. She can feel pain in every part of her body. It's silent around her. Carefully she opens her eyes. It's extremely bright and she has to close them again. Yossie calls for the others, but nobody responds. Where is she? Carefully she tries to get up and opens her eyes again. She has to cover her eyes with the hand, but is able to look around. It's nothing but white. The floor, the ceiling and the not existing walls. "Am I dead?", she asks, but nobody responds. She makes a step forwards and suddenly everything white turned blue. Yossie is puzzled. There is a white flickering everywhere like on TV. She tries to find a wall with her hands, but the area seems to be endless. "Where the hell am I?", she continues to ask herself. Suddenly lightnings appear around her, but they don't make any sound. Yossie glimpses and everything turns green. She is confused and rubs her eyes, but the colors don't change again. Slowly panic starts to rise within her. The whole area is making her insane. In her panic she tries to run away, but it doesn't matter how far she runs; nothing changes. She looks around, her heart beating fast. Yossie stumbles towards every direction. She is clueless and confused, when suddenly she steps into a hole. Yossie screams and closes her eyes. It must be a big hole. The fall doesn't seem to end anytime soon. Slowly she tries to open her eyes and is even more confused than before. Yossie now opens them wide. She can't believe what she sees. All of a sudden she is in a small room and sits at a table. Yossie jumps up, causing the chair to fall to the side. She skims over the wooden table. It seems to be real. Now she moves along the wall; it's real as well. The things that happen are definitely beyond her imagination. All she can think of is that she is dead or dreaming; "but why is everything so real?" Yossie folds her hands behind her head, when suddenly somebody opens the door to the room. She is scarred. "Who is it? What's happening?" A pretty young girl enters the room, but Yossie doesn't know her. The girl first doesn't notice Yossie, she is too busy with other things, but then she gets a shock. She seems to be as confused as Yossie, who also screamed.

The girl stares at Yossie, "A...are...you..?"

"...I..."

Bang, all of a sudden Yossie is back in the weird place. The walls are all still blue. Lightnings are everywhere, but seem to go away. Yossie is rigid. She can't understand what's happening. The walls turn white and Yossie has to cover her eyes again. Yossie is clueless about what to do. She looks around and is surprised to see somebody lying on the floor. Slowly she gets closer to her and notices that it's Mikitty lying there.

"Mikitty..", she tries to call her, "Wake up!"

Mikitty awakes after hearing the voice, "Yossie?"

"Yes. Are you okay?"

"I don't know. Where am I?", she opens her eyes, but the white walls blend her.

"Carefully, it's very bright."

Mikitty slowly opens her eyes again and looks around, but she can't see Yossie anywhere.
"Where are you?", she asks.

"What do you mean? I am right here."

"I...I can't see you. Where are you?", Mikitty tries to follow her voice.

"What the hell is up with this place."

"Where are we? Am I dead?"

"I don't know, but I thought the same."

Mikitty blinks for a seconds and suddenly stands right in front of Yossie, "YOSSIE!"

"MIKITTY!", Yossie is surprised. A second ago she was a couple of meters away and now.. .

Mikitty wants to hug her, but Yossie disappears again. "Yossie?", she asks. This time she doesn't get an answer. She panics and walks around, when suddenly a semi-transparent girl appears in front of her. It's the same young girl Yossie saw before. Mikitty is a bit scarred and asks her who she is, but the girl only points to her left. She is confused and looks to where the girl points, but there is nothing. Mikitty turns her head towards the girl again, but suddenly she is in a ".....FOREST?". She makes a few steps back and bumps into a tree; It sure hurt. While rubbing the bump, she walks around. She can hear a weird sound on her right and turns around. "pan.....PANDA?", she screams. There is indeed a big panda sitting right next to her. It stares at Mikitty. She is scared and walks away from it, when she all of sudden bumps into something soft. Mikitty looks around; It's the panda again. She jumps away from it, stumbles and falls to the ground; This probably also hurt.

"Hi~", the panda says.

"W..w...what do you want from me?", Mikitty asks with fear, "And why can you talk?"

"You got off the course.", he explains.

"Course? What course? Where am I? Who are you? Why am I here?"

"Ssssh, relax."

"Relaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......"

Mikitty hits the floor again before finishing her questions. This time it didn't hurt so much. She gets up on her feet and opens her eyes. Shock! It's her hotel room. In her shock she caused the bedside table to fall over. "Wha...wha...wha...", she stumbles. "What happened? Was it all a dream?" Nobody else is in her room and so she decides to check the other rooms. First she enters Yossie's room, but nobody is here. The same relates to the other rooms, except of one. Sayumi is lying in her bed. Mikitty tries to wake her up, but it's impossible; Sayumi won't wake up. She has another idea and rushes to her room. Her mobile phone lies on a table and Mikitty decides to call Shoji. He probably knows what's happening, but to her surprise he doesn't pick up the phone. Usually he always picks it up when she calls. She walks downstairs to find the other girls. The whole staff of the hotel gathered outside. She walks up to one of them and asks where the other girls are, but he doesn't answer. He just stares down the road. Mikitty turns around and sees the mushroom cloud. She looks blank. "It wasn't a dream.", she says to herself. Mikitty becomes confused. If it wasn't a dream, then where are the other girls? "Sayumi", she says. The only idea she can think of is to wake up Sayumi, the only girl she can find. She rushes upstairs and enters Sayumi's and Eri's room, but she isn't there anymore. Mikitty sighs and checks the other rooms again. She can finally find her lying in Yossie's bed. What's the meaning of this? Mikitty is becoming desperate. Everything is so weird and confusing. She walks towards the bed, when Sayumi suddenly disappears again. "Not again", she groans. Mikitty turns towards the door and is about to leave the room, when suddenly something hits the floor behind her. She turns around and is surprised, "YOSSIE?"

[JFC]

The sound of horns and turned on alarm systems are mixed with the sound of sirens. Police and emergency services rush to the scene. Most of the people know that it wasn't a nuclear explosion, but a few still try to get out of the city. The dust starts to abate and you get a clearer view to the harbor.

Considering that a good chunk, if not the whole harbour was taken out, the explosion must have felt in most of Tokyo.

- "People here say that it definitely was no nuclear explosion. The cause of it is till unknown. The fire department is still extinguishing the last open fires. Can you see it?"
"Yes, terrible..there still seems to be a lot of smoke everywhere. Are there any informations about casualties?"

Even if there were some people who knew the real cause of the explosion, the rest likely wouldn't believe it.  If it WAS a nuclear explosion, the mushroom cloud would have been larger and would have lasted longer. Also, there would still be people who'd be dropping dead from radiation exposure.

"Hitomi...."

"...wake up....Hitomi.."

Who's trying to wake up Yossi?

Yossie slowly awakes. She can feel pain in every part of her body. It's silent around her. Carefully she opens her eyes. It's extremely bright and she has to close them again. Yossie calls for the others, but nobody responds. Where is she?

...

It's nothing but white. The floor, the ceiling and the not existing walls.

Well, obviously she's no longer at the harbour. But if she and the other's aren't there, then where are they? Shoji's and/or spirit-Reina's realm? Within the forum that Miki joined?

Yossie is clueless about what to do. She looks around and is surprised to see somebody lying on the floor. Slowly she gets closer to her and notices that it's Mikitty lying there.

Well, at least it looks like they might be able to find the others in this...wherever it is.

Mikitty slowly opens her eyes again and looks around, but she can't see Yossie anywhere.
"Where are you?", she asks.

"What do you mean? I am right here."

"I...I can't see you. Where are you?", Mikitty tries to follow her voice.

Is it that Miki can't see Yossi, or can she not see anything at all?  With any luck it's just that her eyes need time to adjust.

Mikitty blinks for a seconds and suddenly stands right in front of Yossie, "YOSSIE!"

"MIKITTY!", Yossie is surprised. A second ago she was a couple of meters away and now.. .

Mikitty wants to hug her, but Yossie disappears again. "Yossie?", she asks. This time she doesn't get an answer.

WTF first she was there, then Yossi disappeared? Does this mean that each girl is in her own reality, but that they can sometimes move from one to another? If so, then they need to figure out how to control it so that they can all go and meet up in the same place.

She panics and walks around, when suddenly a semi-transparent girl appears in front of her. It's the same young girl Yossie saw before.

So then, who's this strange girl? Neither Yossi nor Miki apparently recognized her, so how exactly does she fit in all this?

Mikitty turns her head towards the girl again, but suddenly she is in a ".....FOREST?". She makes a few steps back and bumps into a tree; It sure hurt. While rubbing the bump, she walks around.

Ok, wherever the girls are, it's constantly changing, apparently at random.  So far there haven't been any clues (unless they're really, REALLY subtle) that would show that the girls have any influence on "where they end up".

She can hear a weird sound on her right and turns around. "pan.....PANDA?", she screams. There is indeed a big panda sitting right next to her. It stares at Mikitty

Reina?

"Hi~", the panda says.

"W..w...what do you want from me?", Mikitty asks with fear, "And why can you talk?"

"You got off the course.", he explains.

"Course? What course? Where am I? Who are you? Why am I here?"

WTF the panda talks, and it's a "he"? This means that it's NOT Reina. 

He says that Miki's off course? This must mean that there IS a way for Miki (and thus the others) to take control of where they are.

Mikitty hits the floor again before finishing her questions. This time it didn't hurt so much. She gets up on her feet and opens her eyes. Shock! It's her hotel room.

So is this her real hotel room in the real world, or is it just another manifestation of that "wherever it was" that they were?

Nobody else is in her room and so she decides to check the other rooms. First she enters Yossie's room, but nobody is here. The same relates to the other rooms, except of one. Sayumi is lying in her bed. Mikitty tries to wake her up, but it's impossible; Sayumi won't wake up. She has another idea and rushes to her room. Her mobile phone lies on a table and Mikitty decides to call Shoji. He probably knows what's happening, but to her surprise he doesn't pick up the phone. Usually he always picks it up when she calls.

How did Sayu get there, and why can't Miki wake her up? Last we saw Sayu was heading back towards that warehouse where Risa was building up her energy to blow Itzo out of existence.

She has another idea and rushes to her room. Her mobile phone lies on a table and Mikitty decides to call Shoji. He probably knows what's happening, but to her surprise he doesn't pick up the phone. Usually he always picks it up when she calls.

Either Shoji's phone has been damaged/destroyed, or he's not yet woken up/recovered from the blast, or he's still in that other realm where they were and is just unreachable at the moment.

The whole staff of the hotel gathered outside. She walks up to one of them and asks where the other girls are, but he doesn't answer. He just stares down the road. Mikitty turns around and sees the mushroom cloud. She looks blank. "It wasn't a dream.", she says to herself.

Ok, so Miki's back in the real world. How did she get back, and how can she bring the others back?

The only idea she can think of is to wake up Sayumi, the only girl she can find. She rushes upstairs and enters Sayumi's and Eri's room, but she isn't there anymore. Mikitty sighs and checks the other rooms again. She can finally find her lying in Yossie's bed. What's the meaning of this? Mikitty is becoming desperate. Everything is so weird and confusing. She walks towards the bed, when Sayumi suddenly disappears again.

So Sayu's sort of like Yossi, in that she's somehow shifting locations at random intervals.  It still doesn't answer why she's there in the first place and how it is that she can't be woken up.

Mikitty turns towards the door and is about to leave the room, when suddenly something hits the floor behind her. She turns around and is surprised, "YOSSIE?"

Man, the way that the girls keep "dropping in" on these new places, they're should probably have some protective padding or something.

[HPriest]

Episode 16 - Endlessness Part 2

Reina awakes. Slowly she opens her eyes and struggles like the others; it's too bright. Carefully she gets up on her feet and inspects the place. The same confusions starts to overtake her. Reina looks down herself; every wound seems to be healed. This is odd, very odd. She doesn't really like to be alone and tries to get a connection to the ancient Reina, but it's not working. Reina walks around a bit, when suddenly another Reina appears in front of her. After only a short glimpse, she finds herself in a huge city. All the lights make it look like Las Vegas.

"Where am I? Are you the ancient Reina?", she asks.

"Layers are shattered, connections are broken, you have to listen to the sound within yourself.", the other Reina responds.

"I...I don't understand..", suddenly a passenger wants her to step to the side.

"Excuse me, can you please let me pass with my baby carriage?", a woman says.

"Eh? Of course...there you...wait a minute....Sayumi?"

Suddenly a bang and light forces Reina to close her eyes again. Something feels weird and she opens them again. Shock! "N..No...No WAY", is Reina's reaction after seeing herself lying in a delivery room of a hospital. Her heart starts to beat very fast and her breathing increases drastically. The shock seems to be big. She locks down herself and sees the big belly. "No, no, no, no..", are the only words she can say. The doctor pulled out a baby seconds ago.

"Look, it's a girl.", the face of the baby even looks exactly like Reina's.

Suddenly it starts to speak: "Layers are shattered, connections are broken, you have to listen to the sound within yourself."

"What? No! Where? Why..what the hell is happening? Is it a bad dream? Help...HELP!"

"Wake up!", a voice calls.

"What, who?"

"Reina, wake up!"

"Yuko?"

"Wake up!"

Slowly the delivery rooms transforms into a forest. Yuko is holding her head.

"YUKO!!!"

"Ssssh, calm down. Everything is fine.", Yuko caress her.

"Wha...wha.....wha..."

"It's over. Watch your breath. It's over, really.", Yuko seems to be successful with her attempt to calm her down.

"What happened?", Reina asks.

"I don't know, but Shiro found us.", Yuko explains.

"Shiro?"

"Look, he's right there.", Yuko points at somebody.

"Huh?", Reina looks. "A......A PANDA!!?", she asks.

"I know." Yuko answers.

She puts her hand above Reina's eyes to help her to calm down more. "Relax..", she says. Reina is still confused and dizzy. The shock is still heavy. Yuko's words help her to relax. She even becomes a bit sleepy and opens her yes, when suddenly she hits something solid.

"ITAI!"

"Reina!"

She opens her eyes. "Huh? Mikitty?"

"Yossie! Reina appeared!", Mikitty shouts.

Yossie rushes into the room and stops, "Reina...thank god."
Reina is far away from not being confused anymore. Mikitty asks her about a panda and she nods.

"A...and...weird dreams..", Reina stutters.

"We know...we know..", Yossie and Mikitty sigh.

Reina remembers the dream, jumps up and looks down to herself. "I am not pregnant!!", she smiles.

Now Mikitty and Yossie are confused, they want to know the details, but get interrupted by a knocking; somebody is at the door. Yuko enters the room and waves. Of course, the girls want to have answers, but Yuko isn't able to give them.

"I don't understand the details, but I know that it's pretty serious.", she explains. "We should check the other rooms for the next arrivals. Shiro will probably find them soon."

"Shiro?", Mikitty asks.

"Oh, right. We didn't tell you. Shiro is the super-admin of the forum.", she replies.

"Super...", Yossie starts.

"..Admin?", Reina finishes the sentence.

"Yes, the panda you saw. It's him.", Yuko continues.

The girls are confused, but don't really want to know why he is a panda. It would probably even more confusing than the whole current situation in general. Mikitty tells her about Sayumi and Yuko actually seems to be surprised, "She is here?". Sayumi is lying in her bed. "This explains a lot.", Yuko tells to herself. Yuko orders them to control every room. The other girls could arrive any second.

Back in the weird white place. Eri awoke a few seconds ago and is already walking around the area. She doesn't say anything. Eri concentrates on the aura of the whole place in order to find out where she is. Suddenly she gets transformed into a tiny room. It's the same room Yossie has been in before. Eri doesn't seem to be too confused, a bit baffled, but not confused. She is curious about what's behind the door and opens it. Okay, now she really is surprised. What a change compared to the little room. She suddenly stands in a large room of a huge building. It looks like a big office. Everywhere are desks and people. Everybody seems to ignore each other. They don't even notice Eri. She notices the setting through the windows and slowly walks towards them. Eri places her hand on the window and looks outside. "The future?", she whispers. The structure of the buildings look like those in science-fiction movies. She looks down and notices the flying cars. "The future.", she answers herself.

"You must be Eri.", a girl suddenly says behind her.

Eri turns around. "Yes?"

"Welcome."

"You...", says with a look of inquiry.

"I don't really know what happened, but Shiro asked me to help him. He isn't able to track you in this dimension.", the girl explains.

"I know you.", Eri suddenly says.

"It's not the right time now. You have to hurry and get back. Here, take this before you leave.", she gives her something.

"What is it?", Eri asks.

"Something you gave me a long time ago.", the girl tells with a sad voice.

"I gave it to you?"

"It's an amulet. I'll explain it to you later.", the girl suddenly is in a hurry.

"Amulet?", Eri looks at it. It starts to shine.

"See you later."

"Later?", the girl pushes her out of the window, "wait....NOOOO!"

Eri also hits something and slowly opens her eyes. It's a bit blurry first.

"Hey! It's Eri! Eri is back!", Reina shouts.

"Is it our dimension again?", Eri asks Reina.

"Dimension?", Reina is confused.

"So, it's true.", Yuko says.

"What?", Eri asks.

Reina tells her that Sayumi appeared in her bed right before Eri. Of course, Eri doesn't understand what they mean.

"Where is she now?", Mikitty asks.

"Here!", Yossie calls from another room. Mikitty and Yossie rush to the other room while Reina helps Eri to get up on her feet.

"Look, it's Aichan's bed." Yossie continues.

All the girls gather around her and Risa's bed. It's taking longer than before. Mikitty decides to turn on the TV to get some infos about the incident at the harbor. More than 30min pass and they still wait around the bed and watch the news.

"She moved!", Reina jumps up.

"Where is Aichan?", Yossie asks.

"..not here." Mikitty response.

"Look", Eri says, "Sayumi is on the other half of the bed now."

"It's Risa's side.", Reina can tell.

Yossie looks at Yuko, "What does it mean that Aichan didn't appear?"

"I...I am not sure.", she replies.

"It probably doesn't mean something good.", Eri interrupts.

Everybody makes a concerned face. Up until now it looked like that Sayumi somehow is involved in bringing back the girls, but why didn't it work with Aichan? Yuko, Eri, Reina, Mikitty and Yossie all think the same, but are too afraid to say it out loud. Aichan indeed seems to be dead...they can't think of any other reason. They become nervous and wonder what will happen with Risa and whether they will be able to see Aichan again or not.

The girls continue to wait around the bed. Suddenly Eri points at the TV.

"Girls! look!"

"Hm?", Yossie asks.

- "...when suddenly a girl appeared at the scene. We are not able to get closer, the military and police blocked every way."
"One of our helicopters is in the air and tries to get closer to the scene, although we are not allowed to enter the zone."
~ From the helicopter; "Yes, we are currently flying over the zone. We are getting warnings of the military to leave the zone, but we will try to get a closer shot first."
"Please be careful."
~ "Yes, we are now going closer to the girl. Do you get the visual?"
"Yes, we get a clear visual."
~ "Man, this girl really looks weird. She must have been here during the explosion. Look at how she looks. Wait a minute, she seems to be angry. Can you see it?"
"Yes and I am currently getting the info that this girl is a known idol from the group Morning Musume. We will try investigate this further to confirm it."
~ "This poor girl. Look, she looks at us! We will try to......." Suddenly the visual and audio-signal gets lost.
"Yes? Hello? Can you hear me?  .... I am sorry, but it looks like we've lost signal. We will switch to our other reports, who found a way to get closer into the zone. Toru, can you hear me?"
- "Suddenly, wind started to come from the zone. The military was confused as well and we were able to slip through the barricade. We are currently getting closer to the scene."
"Any information about the helicopter?"
- "No, it's still flying above the zone. It probably only is a technical problem. Wait!"
"What? What can you see?"
- "It looks like it is loosing control. Yes..oh my god, can your see it? It is loosing control, but the pilot seems to be able to stabilize it again. We can see the girl now, she.........." Now even the signal to this reports gets lost.
The newscaster acts like she is actually concerned, "Toru? TORU?.....it seems like we also lost this signal. However, we can now confirm that the name of this girl is Niigaki Risa and a member of the group Morning Musume. We are currently trying to get a signal again. Please excuse the technical problems."

The girls decide that somebody has to get there quick, but they can't leave the rooms alone. There are still a few girls missing. Yuko decides to go with Reina. An argument starts, when suddenly the channel seems to get a signal again. Eri tells them to stop and watch.

"We are getting a signal from our reporter on the ground again. Toru, what happened?"
- "I......C.....y.....r..."
"Toru? Can you here me? What happened? .... Toru?"
- "I....can..he...you, can......me.."
"It looks like the sound still doesn't work, but I just got the word that we have a visual again."

Visual comes up, but all they can see is thick smoke

"Oh my god. Toru? TORU? Is anyone there and can tell us what happened?"
- "Y..yes. I am still here. Sorry."
"TORU! Thank god...What happened?"
- "I don't know. This girl....and suddenly... ."
"What do you mean?"
- "We will try to get a bit closer! ... I am not really sure what happened...the smoke is annoying ... It is getting clearer now."
"Be careful!"
- "I ...I can see fire over there. Can you see it as well? We are trying to get closer to it."
"What is it?"
- "Oh....oh my god, it..it is the helicopter. It must have crashed!"
"Damn.....can you see any survivors?"
- "Negative, we will try to get closer. ... You know what's weird. The closer we get to the center of the island, the clearer it gets. All the smoke and dust disappears. We can't get any closer to the helicopter, the fire is.......d....d..do you see that?
"What?"
- "The girl! She is still standing there! It looks like she didn't got injured. We will try to talk to her."
"Ah yes, now we can see her. She didn't got hurt?"
- "Excuse me?! Are..are you Niigaki Risa? What are you doing in such a place?"

Risa doesn't reply.

- "Hello? Can you hear me? ...it doesn't look like she can or want to hear me."
"Ask her if she is okay; it's probably the shock."
- "Got it. You, are you okay? We are from the television and are currently reporting on the incident."

Risa changes her facial expression from angry to sad and suddenly cries, "Aichan....Aichan is dead."

- "Aichan? A friend of yours? Did she die in the explosion? Can you tell us what happened earlier?"

Risa changes back to angry. You can see the energy inside and around of her rising again.

- "What eh? Did I say something wrong? Are....are you okay?"

An electromagnetic field appears around her again. It doesn't reach the reporter and so the signal doesn't get interrupted. She doesn't need all her energy to attack this weak person and is already ready to attack. She points her hands towards him. The reporter gets a bit scarred. Risa shouts, but suddenly a very bright white and pink light appears. The reporter has to cover his eyes. When he looks back to the girl again, she is gone; Confusion. The field and the bright light made the whole smoke and dust disappear. He really is more than confused. The viewers were also able to see everything. Suddenly the military rushes to the scene to secure the helicopter and to get the reporters out of the area again. They have to turn off their cameras and switch back to the studio. Now the newscaster finally also is speechless and doesn't have to act to be fascinated anymore. It seems like the whole administration is speechless, because it took more than 10 seconds until they finally entered into a commercial break.

The girls also stare at the TV. What happened? Eri turns around and jumps up.

"SAYUMI!", she screams, "Sayumi is gone!"

[meowz]

I am not good with stretching things and my other fanfic is a bit more detailed.
This fic here is supposed to be a bit more faster.

Is it so bad that it destroys the flow?
Maybe I have to take more care and put in more details next time..

Don't worry about it, its not that bad, just something I observed when reading and I got confused at some parts. But on the whole it's doing great. And uh, you're pretty good at cliffhangers at the end of every episode 
*waits impatiently for the next update*

Oh by the way, Kame can bring people back to life can't she? Could she bring Takahashi back to life?   

[JFC]

Reina looks down herself; every wound seems to be healed. This is odd, very odd.

Her wounds are healed? While that's good to hear, it's strange that they would be. Wonder if she was conscious and/or aware of what spirit-Reina was doing during the fight with Itzo?

She doesn't really like to be alone and tries to get a connection to the ancient Reina, but it's not working.

It could be that spirit-Reina is too weak or is just unable (perhaps due to where Reina is at the moment) to make a connection.

Reina walks around a bit, when suddenly another Reina appears in front of her. After only a short glimpse, she finds herself in a huge city. All the lights make it look like Las Vegas.

Another Reina? Could it be spirit-Reina or that same mystery girl that appeared before Miki and Yossi?

"Excuse me, can you please let me pass with my baby carriage?", a woman says.

"Eh? Of course...there you...wait a minute....Sayumi?"

Suddenly a bang and light forces Reina to close her eyes again. Something feels weird and she opens them again. Shock! "N..No...No WAY", is Reina's reaction after seeing herself lying in a delivery room of a hospital. Her heart starts to beat very fast and her breathing increases drastically. The shock seems to be big. She locks down herself and sees the big belly. "No, no, no, no..", are the only words she can say. The doctor pulled out a baby seconds ago.

"Look, it's a girl.", the face of the baby even looks exactly like Reina's.

Suddenly it starts to speak: "Layers are shattered, connections are broken, you have to listen to the sound within yourself."

WTF babies? TALKING BABIES?!?!?!?!?

"Layers are shattered, connections are broken, you have to listen to the sound within yourself."

Just wild guesses on my part, but the "layers" part could be a reference to the way that the girls seem to be randomly shifting from place to place. "Connections" could be how they can't seem to get in contact with one another. The "sound within yourself" could be her way of saying that the girls can take control of the situation (perhaps if they use their awakened powers or can somehow contact their ancient selves).

"Wake up!", a voice calls.

"What, who?"

"Reina, wake up!"

"Yuko?"

"Wake up!"

Slowly the delivery rooms transforms into a forest. Yuko is holding her head.

Yuko found her, huh? Cool. With luck Yuko should have more control over these apparent shifts in location.  If so, it might make it easier to find the others.

"What happened?", Reina asks.

"I don't know, but Shiro found us.", Yuko explains.

"Shiro?"

"Look, he's right there.", Yuko points at somebody.

"Huh?", Reina looks. "A......A PANDA!!?", she asks.

"I know." Yuko answers.

WTF, Shiro's a panda?

Wait a sec, who's Shiro? 

Reina is still confused and dizzy. The shock is still heavy. Yuko's words help her to relax. She even becomes a bit sleepy and opens her yes, when suddenly she hits something solid.

"ITAI!"

"Reina!"

She opens her eyes. "Huh? Mikitty?"

"Yossie! Reina appeared!", Mikitty shouts.

Well, so much for the theory that Yuko has more control over the location shifting. But, at least now Reina's "found" Miki and Yossi, which should mean that she's back in the real world.

Reina remembers the dream, jumps up and looks down to herself. "I am not pregnant!!", she smiles.

Now Mikitty and Yossie are confused, they want to know the details, but get interrupted by a knocking; somebody is at the door. Yuko enters the room and waves. Of course, the girls want to have answers, but Yuko isn't able to give them.

Reina =

Yossi & Miki =

Yuko = 

"We should check the other rooms for the next arrivals. Shiro will probably find them soon."

"Shiro?", Mikitty asks.

"Oh, right. We didn't tell you. Shiro is the super-admin of the forum.", she replies.

"Super...", Yossie starts.

"..Admin?", Reina finishes the sentence.

"Yes, the panda you saw. It's him.", Yuko continues.

Shiro...is a Super-Admin? 

If he is/was, then where the fuck has he been while Itzo's been running amok? 

Back in the weird white place. Eri awoke a few seconds ago and is already walking around the area. She doesn't say anything.

...

"You must be Eri.", a girl suddenly says behind her.

The same one that Yossi and Miki saw? Just what IS her role in all of this?

"I don't really know what happened, but Shiro asked me to help him. He isn't able to track you in this dimension.", the girl explains.

"I know you.", Eri suddenly says.

Eri recognizes her?  How? Is she from the forum, or maybe someone that her ancient-self knew so long ago?

So the "layers" that were mentioned before must mean different dimensions.  I guess when/if Shiro can't find the girls, he must send out this mystery girl to help.

"It's not the right time now. You have to hurry and get back. Here, take this before you leave.", she gives her something.

"What is it?", Eri asks.

"Something you gave me a long time ago.", the girl tells with a sad voice.

"I gave it to you?"

"It's an amulet. I'll explain it to you later.", the girl suddenly is in a hurry.

"Amulet?", Eri looks at it. It starts to shine.

"See you later."

Okay, it definitely must be someone that Eri's ancient-self knew, and the amulet must be something (possibly a magical item) that her ancient-self once possessed.

Everybody makes a concerned face. Up until now it looked like that Sayumi somehow is involved in bringing back the girls, but why didn't it work with Aichan? Yuko, Eri, Reina, Mikitty and Yossie all think the same, but are too afraid to say it out loud. Aichan indeed seems to be dead...they can't think of any other reason. They become nervous and wonder what will happen with Risa and whether they will be able to see Aichan again or not.

If Sayu is the one bringing them back, then her being unconscious could just be because she's giving so much energy and concentrating so much on finding them.  Evidently she's more powerful than the others realized.

But, what about Aichan???

The girls continue to wait around the bed. Suddenly Eri points at the TV.

"Girls! look!"
...

"One of our helicopters is in the air and tries to get closer to the scene, although we are not allowed to enter the zone."
~ From the helicopter; "Yes, we are currently flying over the zone. We are getting warnings of the military to leave the zone, but we will try to get a closer shot first."
"Please be careful."
~ "Yes, we are now going closer to the girl. Do you get the visual?"
"Yes, we get a clear visual."
~ "Man, this girl really looks weird. She must have been here during the explosion. Look at how she looks. Wait a minute, she seems to be angry. Can you see it?"
"Yes and I am currently getting the info that this girl is a known idol from the group Morning Musume. We will try investigate this further to confirm it."
~ "This poor girl. Look, she looks at us! We will try to......." Suddenly the visual and audio-signal gets lost.

...

- "It looks like it is loosing control. Yes..oh my god, can your see it? It is loosing control, but the pilot seems to be able to stabilize it again. We can see the girl now, she.........." Now even the signal to this reports gets lost.
The newscaster acts like she is actually concerned, "Toru? TORU?.....it seems like we also lost this signal. However, we can now confirm that the name of this girl is Niigaki Risa and a member of the group Morning Musume. We are currently trying to get a signal again. Please excuse the technical problems."

Shit, Risa's still in "fury mode" over Itzo killing Aichan.   Taking the helicopter down the way she did is likely just a small start.  If they can't calm her down, in her current state of anger/grief she's going to run rampant on the city even worse than what Itzo would have done!

"We are getting a signal from our reporter on the ground again. Toru, what happened?"
- "I......C.....y.....r..."
"Toru? Can you here me? What happened? .... Toru?"
- "I....can..he...you, can......me.."
"It looks like the sound still doesn't work, but I just got the word that we have a visual again."

He survived??? He's damn lucky, considering they did something stupid like ignore/disregard the "no-fly" zone.

- "The girl! She is still standing there! It looks like she didn't got injured. We will try to talk to her."
"Ah yes, now we can see her. She didn't got hurt?"
- "Excuse me?! Are..are you Niigaki Risa? What are you doing in such a place?"

Shit, for his sake I hope he doesn't say anything stupid.

Risa changes her facial expression from angry to sad and suddenly cries, "Aichan....Aichan is dead."

- "Aichan? A friend of yours? Did she die in the explosion? Can you tell us what happened earlier?"

Risa changes back to angry. You can see the energy inside and around of her rising again.

- "What eh? Did I say something wrong? Are....are you okay?"

An electromagnetic field appears around her again. It doesn't reach the reporter and so the signal doesn't get interrupted. She doesn't need all her energy to attack this weak person and is already ready to attack. She points her hands towards him. The reporter gets a bit scarred. Risa shouts, but suddenly a very bright white and pink light appears. The reporter has to cover his eyes. When he looks back to the girl again, she is gone

She disappeared? Maybe Sayu or Shiro discovered what she was about to do and "shifted" her somewhere else before she could blow that reporter away on live TV.  Risa sounds very grief-stricken and is probably really emotional/irrational right now. With luck the others will be able to contain her power until they can find out what happened to Aichan.

The girls also stare at the TV. What happened? Eri turns around and jumps up.

"SAYUMI!", she screams, "Sayumi is gone!"

If Sayu was the one who got Risa out of there, maybe she went with her to wherever it was that she took her.

[HPriest]

Episode 17 - Dimensions

The girls immediately check the other rooms, but they can't find Sayumi anywhere. They are not sure what happened. Suddenly they hear somebody in the floor, "Eri..". It's a male voice and it sounds like..., yes it's Shoji. He carries Mitsui in his arms. Shoji tells Eri to heal her. She didn't make it through all the mess like the others. Probably because she is young and not in the possession of of an ancient spirit. Shoji hopes that he brought her before it's too late, but Eri seems to be optimistic. He is relieved. Shoji isn't in a good condition either. The girls wonder why he didn't make it through. "Long story...", he answers. Eri's skills of healing must have improved already, Mitsui is already coughing and becoming conscious. Yuko asks if Shiro helped him, but he shakes his head. "He wasn't able to find her", he replies. "I....I....", Shoji becomes unconscious. Eri hurries and checks his condition, "He...he is dead." "What?", Yuko and Mikitty can't believe it. They carry him to a bed and tell Eri to bring him back. She starts the process. The last time Eri resurrected somebody, she became supportive energy from Shoji. Will she be able to bring him back without this mysterious energy?

Suddenly Koharu and Sayumi enter the room, "Hey girls!".

"Hi", Reina responds, "...wait a minute...Koharu? Sayumi?"

They are more than surprised to see them. Koharu explains that she dropped on the floor in her room; the same like everyone else. Yossie asks Sayumi about her actions, but she doesn't seem to remember anything. "I just woke up in my bed", she says. Mikitty tells her what happened and that she disappeared five minutes ago. Sayumi only looks at her with confusion, not saying any word. Mikitty looks back the same way, not saying anything as well. This awkward silence remains for about ten long seconds. "Whatever", Mikitty ends the staring contest. Koharu asks about this panda. The others tell her that they saw the same. Sayumi still is confused and describes her dream, "A panda? I was on a meadow and then a truck came and gave out ice for free. Afterwards I...". "Forget it..please..", Mikitty interrupts her.

Eri is making no process at all. The other girls tell her to concentrate more, but she is already giving all her best. The spirit Sayumi appears all of a sudden.

"WHERE IS HE?", she asks angrily.

The girls are confused, "WHo?"

"SHOJI!"

Reina answers for the girls, "He is dead."

"No, he is not." the spirit Sayumi answers.

"But he is lying right there", Yossie points at him.

"I don't care where he lies. He is not dead, but I will kill him for sure!", she still is angry,

"What's the problem?", Yossie asks

Spirit Sayumi starts to explain what happened. Somehow a new dimension has been created seconds before the explosion. It was the work of an amateur. The new dimension was way too close to the current one and was a complete mess. It could have completely destroyed the current dimensions, if it existed any minute longer. The girls guess that she means this weird place they have been in. They ask if Shoji made it, but the spirit Sayumi only laughs. "Shoji? He is only an admin. It must have been somebody of you girls.", she explains. Somebody of them? The girls look around. Yuko looks at Sayumi. Was it her? However, the spirit Sayumi doesn't know who it was. She continues and tells them that there are even more problems. It looks like the super-admin and Shoji broke one of the laws of the dimensions. Nobody is allowed to travel through dimensions. It helps that almost nobody has the power to do it anyway, not even the gods. Law? Dimensions? How many are there?

Yuko continues to explain the things she learned long ago. First there only was one dimension and many gods. Gods are based on humans, since the first god 'died' a very long time ago. Humans tend to get into arguments and such things. Sooner or later it led to almost a war between the gods. Everybody wanted to have the most control over the world. One god had an idea and somehow managed to find a way to create new world, so called dimensions. They are almost similar to the original world, but completely independent. Fast it became common that every god has its own dimension. This worked for a while, but soon the first arguments started again. Not everyone was able to manage a world on their own and so many dimensions became a mess. The gods became jealous over other dimensions. Like kids fighting over toys, they started to manipulate the other dimensions. Once again they were able to find a solution before breaking out a war. They casted barriers around the dimensions. All the gods gave a bit of their power in order to make it unbreakable, except of those that have messed up dimensions. They created a law so that no of the 'good' gods would be able to fight against another god. Nobody was able to manipulate other dimensions now, but the separation was the start of the real underworld. Now they were the 'good' gods and the angry,'bad' gods. The 'good' gods didn't care as long as the others weren't able to cross the borders anyway. Guess what, they angry goods found a way to at least create small holes in the barriers to send one or two of their 'creations' to other dimensions to spread the evil there. It was a clever and passive way. The other goods can't directly influence the humans. All they can try is to place a creation in the world or give one of them a epiphanic realization. They can't just kill a human or anything that would need them to actively interact with the humans. The very first god made them this way.

Then some gods felt something strange in one of the dimensions. It was actually a godless dimension, the god didn't want it anymore. There was an usually power. Yes, she means the girls. They were already a group when they found them. The gods thought that they found the answer to their problems and tried their best to passively influence them to help them. It's not sure whether it was because of the help of the gods, but the girls suddenly were able to cross the border. The gods were surprised. The girls 'teleported' into a dimension where the evil started to spread and defeated it. Afterwards they went into another dimensions and did the same, without the influence of the gods. Soon some anonymous person created the forum in order to help the girls. With users from all kind of dimensions, they were able to find out where the biggest 'evil' is messing around. The forum quickly grew and the gods started to interact with the admins. However, it's still unknown who this anonymous person really is. His nick is 'Shiro', but nobody saw him so far. He is not a panda. Whenever he has to appear in front of somebody, he has another body. Only Shoji probably knows his real person, if he even is a person. There are the wildest rumors. He also seems to have great power. Not even the gods know what he is and what he can do. There are rumors that the ancient girls also knew the real super-admin, but apparently thy lost all their memory when they turned into spirits or gods. It's also not known why they actually disappeared. There was no reason, no lost fight..they just disappeared, leaving a message that they will be reborn in the future. "That's it", Yuko ends.

That sure was a lot of information. The girls finally know the whole story, although there are still a lot of mysterious about the girls themselves. With all the given information, they wonder where Aichan and Risa are. Suddenly a voice appears.

"Aichan really is dead and Risa has been moved into a barely populated dimension."

"Shiro..", Yuko says. He isn't in the room personally, the girls can only hear his voice.

"DEAD?", Eri asks.

"Sayumi, you have to show them how to travel." he explains. Shiro means the real Sayumi.

Spirit Sayumi can't agree with him. Another messed up dimension and they are all dead.

Shiro doesn't see any other chance, "Aichan is trapped and Risa is still in rage."

"Wait a minute, trapped? Is she dead or not?", Mikitty asks.

"It's complicated. She is dead, but there are different kinds of death. You can get her back, but first you'd have to know how to travel through dimensions."

The spirit Sayumi is becoming weaker, "I have to go now. It's too painful for a god to show himself in the world. Bye"
She disappears.

"..great..", Mikitty groans.

Reina suddenly asks, "What about Shoji?"

..silence..

"He is doing something...something he isn't supposed to do.", Shiro replies.

"So he isn't dead?", Eri asks.

"He is dead, but...I explained it already...being dead doesn't have to mean that you are dead...."

Sayumi takes a seat, "I don't understand anything and I am hungry."

Eri looks at the amulet, "Maybe this can help us somehow."

"What's this?", Yossie asks.

"Mmmh...", Yuko says, "this almost looks like the description in the forum."

"Yes?", Eri asks.

Yuko continues, "there is a rumor about the first breach through the border of the girls. Some kind of amulet. However, it's only a rumor and many people say that only a god could have made such a thing. Am I right, Shiro? ..... Shiro?"
Shiro doesn't answer anymore. He must have left as well. The super-admin sure is a mysterious being.

"No..", the semi-transparent girl appears, "it's not a rumor and it's not made by a god."

"Who made it?", Eri asks, although she already knows the answers.

"You, you made it."

The girls are fascinated and somehow confused. They are all silent and look at the amulet. Will they be able to travel through the dimensions and get Aichan back like Shiro said? Right when they are all silently fascinated and a bit nervous...

*BUMP* *RUMBLE*

"What happened?", Koharu asks and turns around.

"Great Sayumi?", Reina looks around

"Risa?", Eri is confused as well.

"Itai...", Sayumi lies on the floor.

"Sayumi?", Mikitty asks.

"What happened? Did you find the the other girls?", Yuko is curious.

Yossie also is curious, "Sayumi!?!"

"I....I...fell asleep and.....and...fell from the chair...", Sayumi answers.

The girls sigh...

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Yes, this episode contained a lot of explanations. It will become better again, I just had to explain the whole setting a bit more.
As always...excuse any typo or grammatical mistake.

[JFC]

Suddenly they hear somebody in the floor, "Eri..". It's a male voice and it sounds like..., yes it's Shoji. He carries Mitsui in his arms. Shoji tells Eri to heal her. She didn't make it through all the mess like the others. Probably because she is young and not in the possession of of an ancient spirit.

Thank goodness Shoji found Aika and got her back to the real world.

Shoji isn't in a good condition either. The girls wonder why he didn't make it through. "Long story...", he answers. Eri's skills of healing must have improved already, Mitsui is already coughing and becoming conscious. Yuko asks if Shiro helped him, but he shakes his head. "He wasn't able to find her", he replies. "I....I....", Shoji becomes unconscious. Eri hurries and checks his condition, "He...he is dead."

What the...  Could it be that Shoji used up the last of his energy finding Aika and trying to bring her back? He was rather beat up after the fight with Itzo.  He's been like their guide of sorts, helping the girls along this whole time.  If he can't be brought back, the girls are gonna have it even tougher than they had before.

Suddenly Koharu and Sayumi enter the room, "Hey girls!".

"Hi", Reina responds, "...wait a minute...Koharu? Sayumi?"

EHHH? Sayu's back?    Well, she and Koharu both seem to be okay.

Yossie asks Sayumi about her actions, but she doesn't seem to remember anything. "I just woke up in my bed", she says.

Perhaps spirit-Sayu was using Sayu's body again, or it could be that whatever power Sayu has, she's not aware of when she's using it nor does she have any memories of using it.

The spirit Sayumi appears all of a sudden.

"WHERE IS HE?", she asks angrily.

The girls are confused, "WHo?"

"SHOJI!"

Reina answers for the girls, "He is dead."

"No, he is not." the spirit Sayumi answers.

"But he is lying right there", Yossie points at him.

"I don't care where he lies. He is not dead, but I will kill him for sure!", she still is angry,

Oh shit what now? 

Wait, so even though Shoji's body lies there, dead...spirit-Sayu is saying that he isn't?  So like what, his "essence" is somewhere else then, still in existence? 

Somehow a new dimension has been created seconds before the explosion. It was the work of an amateur. The new dimension was way too close to the current one and was a complete mess. It could have completely destroyed the current dimensions, if it existed any minute longer. The girls guess that she means this weird place they have been in. They ask if Shoji made it, but the spirit Sayumi only laughs. "Shoji? He is only an admin. It must have been somebody of you girls.", she explains. Somebody of them?

Well, right now, of all the girls that we know have powers, I would say Risa would seem to be the most powerful and thus the one most likely to actually be able to do something like create a new dimension.  If, somehow, during her rage she did this to protect the girls while she obliterated Itzo (which, as of yet, has not been confirmed), then it makes sense that it wouldn't exactly be stable. It would have, after all, just been created in a split second without much thought or planning on how it would affect the inter-dimensional balance.

However, the spirit Sayumi doesn't know who it was. She continues and tells them that there are even more problems. It looks like the super-admin and Shoji broke one of the laws of the dimensions. Nobody is allowed to travel through dimensions. It helps that almost nobody has the power to do it anyway, not even the gods.

Obviously, someone found a way to gain enough power to travel between dimensions. Question is, was it Shiro and/or Shoji that found out how to do this? If so, how did they do it? If it wasn't them...then the question is...who's the mystery person that did find the way?

*Yuko's Gods/dimensions story*

Okay, now it's just getting too complicated.

With all the given information, they wonder where Aichan and Risa are. Suddenly a voice appears.

"Aichan really is dead and Risa has been moved into a barely populated dimension."

"Shiro..", Yuko says.

Ok, so now the girls have met (indirectly) Shiro, and they know what's happened to Risa. She got shifted to somewhere where she wouldn't be so much of a threat. But then, is there anything that can be done to bring Aichan back?

"Sayumi, you have to show them how to travel." he explains. Shiro means the real Sayumi.

Sayu knows?  That must have been what she was doing when she was standing in the maelstrom right before Risa blew up the harbor! She must have been creating the dimension and shifting the girls into it.  It would/could also then mean that when the girls were shifting between dimensions that it WAS Sayu's doing (even though she was unconscious). It might be, however, that the explosion left her with some type of trauma and so she doesn't currently remember how she created the dimension or how to travel inter-dimensionally.

Shiro doesn't see any other chance, "Aichan is trapped and Risa is still in rage."

"Wait a minute, trapped? Is she dead or not?", Mikitty asks.

"It's complicated. She is dead, but there are different kinds of death. You can get her back, but first you'd have to know how to travel through dimensions."

THERE'S A CHANCE!!! THEY CAN BRING HER BACK!!! And chances are once they bring Aichan back, they can hopefully calm down Risa.

Reina suddenly asks, "What about Shoji?"

..silence..

"He is doing something...something he isn't supposed to do.", Shiro replies.

"So he isn't dead?", Eri asks.

"He is dead, but...I explained it already...being dead doesn't have to mean that you are dead...."

So then Shoji's essence must still be alive in another dimension. But then...what's he doing there, and will he be able to contact the girls?

Sayumi takes a seat, "I don't understand anything and I am hungry."

I think I know the feeling. 

Eri looks at the amulet, "Maybe this can help us somehow."

"What's this?", Yossie asks.

"Mmmh...", Yuko says, "this almost looks like the description in the forum."

"Yes?", Eri asks.

Yuko continues, "there is a rumor about the first breach through the border of the girls. Some kind of amulet. However, it's only a rumor and many people say that only a god could have made such a thing. Am I right, Shiro? ..... Shiro?"
Shiro doesn't answer anymore. He must have left as well. The super-admin sure is a mysterious being.

"No..", the semi-transparent girl appears, "it's not a rumor and it's not made by a god."

"Who made it?", Eri asks, although she already knows the answers.

"You, you made it."

So Shiro's gone and mystery girl appears again. These spirits/gods sure don't make things easy to understand. 

So the amulet was created by Eri's ancient self, eh?  That must mean that her ancient self was very skilled and/or powerful. If that's the case, Eri must have similar potential.

*BUMP* *RUMBLE*

"What happened?", Koharu asks and turns around.

"Great Sayumi?", Reina looks around

"Risa?", Eri is confused as well.

"Itai...", Sayumi lies on the floor.

"Sayumi?", Mikitty asks.

"What happened? Did you find the the other girls?", Yuko is curious.

Yossie also is curious, "Sayumi!?!"

"I....I...fell asleep and.....and...fell from the chair...", Sayumi answers.

The girls sigh...

*sigh*   

[HPriest]

Okay, now it's just getting too complicated.

Yes. It's a weird story. I included it so that nobody can blame me about story-holes.
Understand it or not..not really important.
One or two facts could have a role in the future, but all in all it was just a boring explanation like in history class. 

Key facts: Girls-Dimensions-Gods-Barriers-Girls can breach barriers-Girls fight evil + a lot of mysteries 

There won't be more of such long explanations.