A/N : Sorry if there are mistakes in my writing as I only write as a hobby. My english is not perfect and I hope anyone who reads this will understand. Feel free to point out mistakes so that I can improve. Enjoy~ :]

Chapter 1

A huge wind whipped around and for awhile there, the air seemed to disorientated. As it settled, Syaoran, Kurogane, Fai and Mokona landed in a new world. They found themselves in a forest. Just as they landed, before they could study their surrounding environment, Fai was knocked back hard by something and fell few feet away from where he stood to the ground, hard. Immediately, the others was at his side, looking concerned.

"Fai!" Mokona hopped onto Fai's head. "What happened?"

"Ugh..." Slowly getting up, Fai shook his head and looked around. "I'm not sure, I felt something hitting me in the stomach quite hard." Lifting his shirt up abit to check, he found nothing out of place, no bruises, no scratches, nothing. He fell his stomach using his fingers and nothing was out of the odinary.

Kurogane was looking around in alert, anticipating any attack that would come at them.

"Fai-san?" Syaoran called out, his eyes was full of worry as he looked nervously at Fai, wanting to help in anyway he can.

"Maybe it's just the wind." Fai waved him off, smiling. "Nothing seems out of place and I feel fine." Patting his stomach softly, he looked up at Kurogane who heaved a sigh of relief. "Now, lets take a look at the world we're in!" Fai exclaimed excitingly, rubbing the dirt off his butt.

"Yay!" Mokona followed suit, hopping around happily from Fai's head to Kurogane's.

Fai was deep in thought as they walked, something felt wrong and words could not express what he felt. Was it the wind that knocked him back? Shaking his head. No, something solid was connected to his stomach when he was knocked back, he felt it and the worst part is he felt something entered him. Recalling that he did not find any wounds on his stomach and that he was feeling fine, he decided to brush off the thoughts. Maybe it was just his imagination. But he could not shake off the bad feeling that's been welding up in him since they arrived this world.

"Fai-san, are you sure you're alright?" Syaoran decided to break the silent. He was starting to feel tensed, with Fai deep in thought and Kurogane on alert. It was very clear that all of them felt something was wrong since they arrived here.

"Hmm, yeah. I think so." Fai frowned, he was confused himself and decided to not worry his comrades. "I'm fine." He responded with assurance.

"Mokona don't really like this place..." Mokona spoke up, shivering sligtly as it sat on top of Kurogane's head. "Mokona's been feeling awful about this place and Mokona can feel that everyone's feeling it too."

"Nothing looks out of the odinary, but lets still becareful." Kurogane shrugged off his feelings and picked up pace. The others nodded and followed.

They walked for quite awhile and everything looked rather normal. The trees swaying in the breeze, bushes rustled and once in a while, small animals like bunnies and squirrels would jumped out and leaped away. It was almost peaceful there. No weird demons, no bloodshed, no eternal snow or desert, nothing that would make the place looked dark and depressing. They came across the end of the forest and stumbled upon a village. That was when everything changed.

The village hunged a completely different atmosphere from the forest they came. The environment there was dark and gloomy, surrounded by dead trees. Houses made of wood and some looked like it was about to fall apart. The ground was dried up and cracks were forming. Most of the humans there was dressed in ragged clothes and walking around lifelessly like zombies. Some sat on the ground with no energy left in them and a majority of them looked malnourished. No one bothered to even greet them or even noticed that they were there. As the gang slowly made their way into the village, more horrible sight greeted them. Sickly humans, vomit and filth all around. The stench was horrible. As they go further, the worser the situation gets, dead bodies and people mourning. But what caught the attention of the group was something on the dead bodies. A small white insect-like creature with rounded bodies crawling around the dead bodies in their small little insect feet. They looked like beetles and comes in sizes as big as a tennis ball and some as small as a speck of dirt. The insects were rummaging through the dead bodies, poking out from every hole a human body contained.

Syaoran turned his head away from the sight and Mokona clinged tightly to Fai. They couldn't stand the sickening sight any longer. Both Kurogane and Fai just stared in pity at the people in the village.

"Pl..please...help us..." Someone cried out, his weak hands reaching out to them.

"Please! Safe my son..!" Another voice wailed. This time a woman craddling her weak baby son in her arms. More and more people started gathering around them, calling out for help and salvation. Syaoran was about to reached out his hand to help one of them when a new group of men in uniforms came out and started shouting at the sick people, using sticks to block them away from Syaoran, Mokona, Fai and Kurogane.

"Don't touch them!" A sharp voice called out, the people from the village winced and shrunk back from the voice. "I don't think you should be here, it's not safe."

"We're sorry, we didn't mean to trespass." Syaoran responded to the voice in a firm tone. "But..."

Infront of them stood a man who seemed to be dressed more decent than the people here, his hair was blonde and tied into a short ponytail, Emerald eyes filled with confidence and almost as tall as Kurogane, he looked like someone of a higher authority. There were others with him and they looked like they were officers as they were dressed in uniforms. The man motioned them to follow him, he then waved his men to their jobs - which seemed to be dealing with the dead bodies and sick villagers. The harsh treatment the officers were handling the ill villagers got to Kurogane as they were poking sticks at them to prevent them from coming any nearer.

"Oi!" Kurogane snapped angrily. grabbing the leader's collar."What are you doing?"

The other officers came up at Kurogane and was about to grabbed him away from their leader When the leader stopped them.

"Stand down!" The leader ordered. "It's fine, I presume you guys are not from around here?" The man glanced at Syaoran and Fai. He doesn't seem to be affected by Kurogane's outraged and Fai assumed that the guy was probably used to these treatment.

"Yes, We are travellers from far away." Fai answered, smiling slightly. He placed a hand on Kurogane's shoulder and motioned him to let go of the man who did so unwillingly.

"I see, I'm Lucrius Kiefer, chief officer of the village." The man introduced himself. Shifting his collar where Kurogane had held him.

"I'm Fai, This is Syaoran, Mokona and big guy here's Kuro-rin!" Fai pointed from Syaoran to Mokona to Kurogane.

"It's Kurogane!" Kurogane twitched at the moment his pet name was mentioned but chose to ignore it, he's more or less used to it already.

"Please, come with me." Lucrius offered. "It really isn't safe to stay here for too long."

"What about the people here?" Syaoran stood his ground and refused to follow.

"There's nothing we can do and with you standing here doesn't help them get better, if you want to live, then follow me." Lucrius was tone serious and his face darkened.

Fai didn't failed to notice the sad look on Lucrius's face despite the man putting on a serious expression. The man was right, these sick villagers were infected by something that they have no knowledge of. Hanging around won't help and if the illness were contagious, it wouldn't help themselves either. He took a glanced back and watched in sadness at the sick villagers who were already scattering away and the officers working on disposing the dead bodies.

"Kuro-sama, Syaoran-kun, let's go." Fai sighed, his eyes telling them that there was nothing they could do and staying might made it worst. Reluctantly, Kurogane and Syaoran understood Fai's intention and followed Lucrius.

"Thank you." Lucrius' voice softened. "Enough people are infected, we can't have more...please understand."

"We understand." Fai responded kindly. He somewhat understood Lucrius' hard position. With an outbreak like that, someone had to keep everything undercontrol even if it hurt them badly.

Lucrius led them to another part of the village that seemed better than the previous one. Here, it's more peaceful, but rather quiet for a village. People here looked more healthy but their face a mask of fear and terror. Most of them hid in their houses and the streets were practically empty. The atmosphere here is just as gloomy and dull.

"What happened here?" Syaoran asked, glancing around the village.

"A plague..." Lucrius replied sadly and sighed. "It's been going on for years and we're running out of supplies. Death increases each year...months..."

Kurogane looked around the village, his instinct telling him that something really bad was going to happened to the whole village. A death sentence signed the end to this village can clearly be seen. He glanced over at Fai and noticed that he had a serious look plastered on his face as he studied the village's surrounding.

"Oi, Mage." Kurogane nudged Fai. "You feel that?" His toned deep and serious.

"Yeah..." Fai nodded, taking in his surrounding. "This doesn't look good..."

"Brother!" A new voice interrupted, followed by footsteps running towards them.

"Lumina?" Lucrius turned and stared Incredulously at the approching girl who's running towards them.

Emerald eyes were met with another pair of Emerald eyes as a blonde hair girl stepped infront of Lucrius, They looked almost alike, besides the fact that they're a different gender. Lumina grinned as she noticed Syaoran and the rest.

"Guest?" She quipped, studying them intently while nodding her head.

"What are you doing out here! You're supposed to be at home, it's safer there!" Lucrius snapped suddenly, slight panic coming from his voice as he grabbed Lumina's arm.

"I'm always at home, trapped like a prisoner when people are dying out there!" Lumina's face hardened as she spoke. "I could have helped and stop treating me like a kid!"

"There's nothing you could do and its dangerous out here!" Lucrius exclaimed, his expression strict and emotionless. "Now, we're going back." Before Lumina could protest, Lucrius grabbed Lumina by her arm and dragged her relunctantly along, Syaoran and gang followed quietly behind, sligtly confused.

Lucrius led them to his home and offered them to stay since it was a big house and there was only Lumina and himself in the whole house. The house was quite big and spacious, probably one of the biggest house in the village. Well, that is to be expected since Lucrius is the chief officer in the village. Lucrius left for work after leading them here and had Lumina guided them to their quarters. When they settled down, Fai offered to help Lumina with her cooking. In the meantime, he was also trying to learn more about the village by digging out some information from Lumina. Kurogane and Syaoran offered to help Lucrius and followed him to work. Lucrius was hesitant at first to take them but Syaoran and Kurogane's psyhical appearance assured Lucrius that they're more than capable to help around. Mokona stayed behind with fai.

"Fai-san, you're so good at cooking!" Lumina exclaimed in amazement as she watched Fai cook.

"Yeah! Fai's cooking is the best!" Mokona hopped around the kitchen counter happily.

"Ahahaha, thank you." Fai responded with a wide smile as he took a peace of chocolate cake and offered it to Lumina. "But Kuro-pyon don't really seems to appreciate them."

"That's because Kuro-papa hates sweet, ne!" Mokona grinned along with Fai who laughed at that causing Lumina to giggle along.

"Ne, Lumina-chan." Fai's tone suddenly became serious, looking at Lumina straight in the eyes he questioned. "What's been happening around the village?"

Lumina's eyes soften, filled with sadness. She looked away from Fai's gaze and hugged herself, trembling slightly.

"Your brother said that the village is plagued."

"It is..." Lumina sighed, turning her head to face Fai.

"By what?" Fai asked gently. "Tell me, maybe we can help."

With that, Lumina looked straight into Fai's eyes, his deep blue eyes filled with determination and assurance that gave her courage. She found herself lost in his eyes and something inside her clicked. Deep down she felt like she can trust Fai and something told her that they really could help. She smiled sadly and nodded.

~~0~~

"By parasites." Lucrius turned to face Syaoran and Kurogane, his toned serious and expression emotionless.

"Parasites?" Kurogane watched as a few officer dragged some dead bodies and pile them up. Every officers wore thicked baggy clothes, boots, gloves and mask to protect themselves from getting infected as they worked.

"Those white insect creatures that you saw on the dead bodies in the other part of the village." Lucrius explained as he adjusted his gloves on his hand. Squatting down beside a deceased body, he inspected it. "They came to our village three years ago, that was when everything started."

"At first, our crops and animals started dying for no reason. We suffered months of food loss and when finally someone discovered that the insects were the reason behind our losses, the person died the next day." Lucrius spoke with a hint of sadness in his voice. "His body was discovered to be filled with those Parasites and from then on, the parasites went on frenzy. They started attacking people instead of crops and animals."

~~0~~

"They became attracted to blood." Lumina took hold of a fork and spinned it, unconciously twirling it around. "Human blood, you won't know even if you're attacked by one. They attacked randomly, biting into your flesh and enters your body. Even then you still won't realize that you are infected because no wounds can be found from where they entered you."

"But the symptoms will show afterwards?" Fai guessed. Walking towards the table and taking a sit across Lumina.

"Yes, and by then it might be too late." Lumina nodded. "The body parts where they attacked you will start to hurt slightly..." She closed her eyes for awhile.

Fai's eyes widened as he suddenly winced slightly, his hands unconciously moved to his stomach. No...could it be?

"The victim will experience dizzyness as the first sign from the blood loss as the Parasites feeds on it." Lumina opened her eyes and stared at Fai with an emotionless expression.

Fai narrowed his eyes as he felt slight dizzyness, but Lumina didn't seemed to notice it and continued explainning. Fai leaned on the table and placed his chin on his hands. Beside him, Mokona was listening intently. Please no...

"They will start to feel very tired and the itch of coughing arised. Slowly, they'll start coughing and vomiting out blood. Growing weaker every minute until they're unable to even walk. Their skin pale and dry as if the blood was sucked out of them...literally."

~~0~~

"And there was nothing we could do." Lucrius motioned one of his men to grabbed something for him as he walked up to the pile of corpse before him. "They'll suffer slowly as we watched, helplessly to their cries for help, reaching out for us in desperation yet there was nothing we could do."

A man came up to Lucrius, hands holding a torch and passing it to Lucrius who took it and gripped onto it tightly until the veins in his knuckles were starting to show.

~~0~~

"Their body will start to convulse and their eyes begging for you to stop their pain." Lumina's hand tightened into a knuckle. "And finally..." A tear rolled down from Lumina's eyes.

~~0~~

"Death..." Lucrius threw the torch towards the pile corpse. He watched as they burned, closing his eyes, a single tear rolled down.