Wow that took a lot longer than I thought!.

I know I have not posted any new chapters in any of my stories but I will try to spend more time and update more!

I will not bore you if the reasons why so just enjoy the chapter and do not forget to tell me what you think!.

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"Where am I? ..." the dark-haired girl tried to focus on the strange and alien place where she was, the surrounding area was deserted and dark. She took a few seconds until her eyes adjusted and she saw it better, at last, the surrounding area, the place was filthy and showed it was not used for a very long time. No... it would be more accurate to say it had never been used. But she could hear and even feel some noises and sounds that the place was not deserted as it seems to be.

The first thing she did was take out her cell phone and try to call someone, 'What is this?' She thought when the only thing that was working was a strange application of red eye that blocked the entire screen. She tried to delete it but without any success. The only thing she saw was a word.

"Momentos?" She was able to read, her first reflex was to go back to where she came from but completely stopped as she remembered her friends went ahead and disappeared in this strange place, 'why did they come here? Were they lost?' She thought anxiously.

Slowly and with trembling hands, Shiho began to move forward more and more inside, with every step her concern and fear have grown even more. If it was because of her friends or herself she was not sure, but clearly, the place felt unnatural and dangerous to her.

After she tried to find her friends unsuccessfully, the dark-haired noticed there were an empty train platform and the railway that continued on into the dark tunnel. Without too many choices and against all logic that she had, Shiho decided to go down to the track and try to look deeper.

As soon as she landed she looked around hopefully, 'No one... I will have to look... deeper', the dark-haired Shiho began to advance more and more into the tunnel, she followed the rails but still no sign of her friends anywhere despite she moved away from where she came.

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She went the same route for about fifteen minutes and still did not see any sign of her friends or anyone else for that matter.

'Where did they go? Maybe I came to a different place?' Shiho thought, she did not see any sign of anyone or hear anything as she finally came to an intersection where there were three different ways to continue.

The black haired looked at the tracks she came from at it continued in the middle as the other two tunnels were without rails.

"what do I do now?" She asked no one and began to seriously consider if it's smarter to turn around and return back. 'Still nothing...' She thought as she was looking at her phone again and still could not call or see anything other than the odd app that lit up the tunnel with a red-light.

"Oh? What's... a map?" When she looked back on her phone, she could see additional words that appeared on the screen. 'Momentos 1st Floor', she said while she was able to see a map that appeared on her screen and showed the place from which she came from.

'Shhh...'.

"What was that?" Shiho wondered when she heard a strange sound that came from one of the tunnels, a deep and inhuman sound, not something that she or any normal person would want to hear ever. Against her good judgment, her legs began to move forward into the tunnel from which she could hear the sound. On the optimistic side of hoping they were her friends, but the other side of her told her to flee far away and abandon her friends.

"What is this place? ' Shiho began to hear a voice that sounded as if it came from anywhere and nowhere at the same time.

She did not know why but the voice was a familiar and completely new to her, she felt that the sound was something she heard every day and never 'I'm looking for my friends, they came here for-'.

'If your friends were here, you would've found them by now... '.

With every step, she was inching closer to the source.

'It doesn't matter! As long as there is a chance to find them'.

'Are you ready to take a chance with this? Do you really want to get hurt again?'.

The voice was completely silent now as she heard something coming. The noise sounded like something like a car engine or another vehicle of the same type. She finally managed to get into the tunnel and peered inside, what she saw did not seem to make sense.

What she saw a strange car that was fleeing from something she could not identify, the vehicle was completely black and blue eyes as lamps and even a small tail sticking out behind it.

Behind it was a huge creature hovering in the air and holding two large guns in his hands, it looked like a monster ... No, it really was a monster. His only appearance was something out of a nightmare... the rustling sound of his body made her shudder like she never felt before and never again if she could help it.

It lifted one of his guns and pointed to the car and in a moment as it shot off one of the wheels, the car lost a wheel and crashed into a completely different wall of the tunnel.

What happened seemed so odd she found it difficult to believe, it reminded her more of a movie or a tv series than anything real. The car disappeared with white smoke while there were four people were the car was.

The first one Shiho saw was a boy her age, he had messy black hair and a long coat that almost reached the ground, Shiho was able to see a dagger in his hand and clearly also a white mask that hid his face partially.

The second one was a blonde haired boy that held a bat in his hand and stood beside the black haired boy.

The third one looked like a girl who was wearing a red cat-like leotard, she was blonde and held in her hand a whip. She looked more tired than the others, she held her side in pain and sat on the floor behind two boys.

The last one didn't even look like a human being, it was a small creature. Black and furry like a cat... thing.

No matter which way, shape or form you would look at it, these people that were dressed in strange masks were her friends, Ann. Ryuji and Akira. Why are they dressed like this or what they did here had to wait until everything is over and she hoped not for them.

All four faced the creature that looks ready to fight and moved to them menacingly. He pointed to one of his guns to the blond standing next to Akira.

"Oh! I'm first?!" The blond boy said shocked and started running away from two other friends. "I will keep him busy! Worry about Panther!" The blond boy shouted between breaths as he ran around the big monster, trying to stay close enough and far away to keep his attention on him unless he decides to attack his friends.

The dark-haired boy pulled a gun from behind his robe and looked at the cat thing next to him, "Mona protect Panther, I'll help skull," said the dark-haired leader and began to run to the huge creature and help his blond friend.

The furry little creature jumped into the air for a moment, "No problem! I will protect Panther with my life!" He said as their leader was already in the midst of the battle with the creature.

Shiho looked with her eyes open, she refused to blink and miss a moment of what happened. It was just unbelievable, the two boys she met and knew looked completely different. They jumped and moved in an almost inhuman way, the boys attacked and even shot the creature mercilessly even though it didn't seem to affect him at all.

The dark-haired woman kept looking at her friends, unable to detect her surrounding, she could finally hear something behind her and turned around immediately.

She saw three creatures that looked the same and were larger than her but not by much, they were all red with wings and tails, not to mention the sharp object between their legs. She honestly thought she was looking at demons from hell. They were not threatening like the creature that attacked her friends but she could still feel their evil intent. Their black eyes focused on the small and timid Shiho and one of them began to approach her.

"What do we have here?".

"You look delicious enough to eat ..."

"Why don't you join us? Well behave"

She felt a familiar fear she felt in the past, 'what are they..' She thought with fear as the three began to approach her with smiles she didn't like.

The dark-haired girl recognized their expressions, it was just like the way Kamoshida looked at her before he attacked her and her world went dark.

Her head began to spin like that time and she felt weak that even the weakest wind could drop her to the ground.

'No... Why... Why me again? Is it my punishment?' Shiho thought with tears in her eyes as she didn't understand why fate was so cruel and unforgiving to her. Why did she have to endure it? 'And just when I... Akira...' the face of black haired appeared in her head.

"You want to give up?" Shiho heard again the voice she had heard before.

"Are you going to let them beat you, hurt you, control you?" The strange voice repeated.

"Maybe you better just run away... It's easier," The voice taunted and laughed at black haired.

Akira's face rose again in her head "No! I'm not going to run away or get hurt! I will not let any of my friends get hurt more!".

At that moment a strong wind came out of her body and blown the three demons from her, she felt powerful beats in her head. It started to hurt to the point that she thought it was going to split.

She could feel that something was on her face, it was a completely white mask that covered her entire face. She had square holes for the eyes and a kind of filter for the nose and mouth. She had the uncontrollable urge to tear her mask off her face.

"So you finally ready to fight for yourself!"

"Show everyone who counted you weak and helpless what you can really do!"

"You're a part of me! You already should know that!" Shiho called out while she grabbed the mask from the holes of the eyes and pulled her from her all the strength she had.

"AHHH!" She tore the mask from her face as a large figure appeared behind her. The figure looked like a woman with black hair and wore long mix between a dress and armor in purple and black colors. She was carrying a large black halberd with two curved silver blades. A black aura surrounded the female figure and something that looked like four black silhouettes of hands hovered behind her.

"We shell celebrate the birth of the real you with a festival of blood!" Called the female figure and swung her arms in the air.

Shiho nodded positively and prepared herself for battle. "let's go Oichi!".

The figure named Oichi raced forward with her blade and cut two of the three demons standing in front of her to pieces causing them to disappear in black smoke in a second.

The last remaining beast looked fearfully at Shiho who approached him with a menacing look.

"Now it's your turn..." the dark-haired snapped her head at the thing that looked as threatening as an ant to her now.

The last Demon raised his hands in fear "W-wait a m-minute, I-I didn't mean to do anything! I j-just wanted to talk to you!" He started to stammer fear.

The dark-haired girl just looked at him with yellow eyes that glowed ominously.

"I-I could give you something ... J-Just to show you I mean it? Maybe money or something?" He looked at her, hoping she would let him go.

"Give me something?" Shiho was silent for a few seconds before she smiled at the creature.

"T-then you decided what you want?" The breast looked happy and relived before he looked at her.

"My payment... will be your blood ...".

"Eh?" the demon tried to say before his head was severed from his neck and flew through the air while the body fell backward and then disappeared in black smoke after Oichi cut his head off.

The dark-haired girl was surprised at how calm she felt, a few seconds ago she was afraid of what might have happened to her. And now she felt invincible and freer than ever before. And even what she did to the demons did not seem strange or different, as if it were a part of her. Who she was and what she needed to do.

"Wait! What about-" she remembered her friends were still against the giant creature. From her place, she could see all four of them were still intact but a little dirty and very tired after quite a battle everyone worked together, but without any success.

The creature looked like she saw it for the first time, he hardly looked like they were able to scratch him or cause him any serious injury.

'I need to do something!' The dark-haired thought in panic. "Oichi!" She called her strength.

Oichi nodded as the hands made of shadows behind her disappeared into the floor. Shiho could feel them pass through the earth and come undernet the place where the creature had attacked her friends was.

The four black hands moved out from the ground behind the big monster, they seized it from his hands and it's body and stooped it from moving.

The appearance of dark hands scared the four. "W-What the hell?!" Asked the blond boy with fear when he saw the black hands appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the Ripper stopping him from finishing them.

"I don't know what are these things, but we need to use this chance and get away," Morgana said and began to help Ryuji get up on his feet.

The black-haired boy nodded and helped Ann to get up before the cat became a car in a puff of smock and started to drive away quickly leaving behind dust and the Ripper still in place.

The Ripper tried to break free but without any success, he struggled but could not get them to budge even a centimeter.

"You tried to hurt my friends ... That was your mistake..." she whispered as she felt the control of the shadow hands. "Now... die..." She could feel the monster that has become smaller and smaller in her hands with sounds of something crushed until it became smoke and finally disappeared completely.

She could feel that the invincible power inside of her begun to weaken, 'no, not... yet' She began to weaken, as her head began to throb. She held her head and tried to stop herself from falling to the floor.

"You are too weak to withstand your power for so long for the first time..." Oichi said as the four dark hands completely covered Shiho until everything went black for the girl.

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When the hands left her Shiho could see she was in what looked like the entrance to where she came from. 'I-I came back here?' Shiho could see the platform from which she fell. She climbed back to the platform and looked around. She had not seen her friends and figured they made it out before she got there.

'I hope they're all right...' the dark-haired girl thought as she proceeded to where she entered from. As she approached the entrance a bright light blinded her for a few seconds and finally, she could see that she was again in a station full of people.

"I'm back?" Shiho looked around in confusion and then took her cell phone out. She could see the device returned to work as usual and seemed that the strange red eye app was still there. She wondered whether it is better to delete it but she finally decided to leave it in case she gets back to the same place named Momentos.

Shiho tried to call her blonde friend 'I just have to check...' She dialed and waited while the phone rang.

"Hello?" Ann's familiar voice answered.

"Ann, Hey what's up?" Shiho asked she could hear the weariness of her friend's voice.

"Hi Shiho, sorry I didn't speak to you today... I was a little busy..." the blonde replied.

"It's okay, I just wanted to ask you something," Shiho began to speak before Ann interrupted her.

"I'm sorry Shiho, I'm not really focused right now. I can barely understand you... can I call you later? Or even tomorrow?" The dark-haired girl heard her friend.

"Yeah, no problem," Shiho said as Ann hung up after she heard her friend's answer. 'She sounded really tired...' she recalled that Ann also looked very tired after the monster attacked her and the two boys.

Just the thought of that place caused her headache, without too much choice she moved to her normal train and went on to her house. She noticed that although she was in that place that looked like a different world. Time itself was still moving normally.

Shiho finally came home and fell into her bed as soon as she entered her room. Her exhaustion finally caught up with her and made her sleep like she's never done before.

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A few days have passed since the first time Shiho followed her friends and came to the place called Momentos, she thought to confront the three members but decided to go and see what their goal was first. And because she still did not know what to say to Akira when she'll see him again.

Shiho followed him again at the end of the day, she made sure that he or anyone else had noticed her behavior. She wasn't like Makoto, following him in such an obvious way that it was embarrassing to watch.

At first, she thought that what happened that day she went after her friends was a dream, so she tried to do the obvious thing and to retraces her steps. She made it to Momentos again and this time felt in complete control. Her power was completely under her control, she felt her body became faster and stronger. She tried it on a small green demon who tried to attack her and destroyed it without the help of Oichi.

The second time she went to Momentos she found she was dressed in something that just showed up on her body. It was an all-black body suit that covered her whole body to her neck, her legs were covered in purple leggings. And on her hands were dark purple gauntlets. And finally on her face was the same mask that appeared on her face for the first time she entered Momentos.

From what she saw she understood that every time she entered Momentos her power and suit just appeared, and she thought it probably holds true for the others as well.

The dark-haired girl could feel her growing fatigue whenever she called Oichi for help or deal with the demons or creatures that attacked her during the time she was investigating in Momentos.

After she made sure she was not crazy and everything really happened as she remembered, she started to follow after the dark-haired boy she was now interested in more than ever. She was not sure this was the same reason she had in the beginning or she was just interested because he has the same power as her. But no matter what the reason was, she wanted to get closer to the black-haired boy.

She also was angry at first about her friend Ann that hid the whole thing from her, but she realized that she must have had her reasons and Shiho probably would not believe such a story. who would believe?.

Some days have gone by and Shiho could see that a purple-haired boy she had seen in the past joined the other members and began to hang out with them more, they did not go to Momentos It was clear to her. They approach a house she did not recognize and simply disappeared into thin air.

She thought she might be seeing things again, but her experience helped her understand it was a similar a place to Momentos, or so she thought.

Shiho decided she would go after them on the next time they go to the same place they have gone to. And the time came sooner than she thought. A few minutes after school ended Akira and Ann found Ryuji in the hallway as the trio went on from there to Central Station where they met the tall purple haired boy.

Shiho readied herself as she prepared to go after them. 'This time I will help them!".