"Don't worry about that! We just need to get away!" Kris replied. Kris and Tea ran into the school building. Gotta find a room... there! After thinking that he found what looked like a storage closet, pulled the door open and threw Tea and himself inside locking the door behind them.



Sarah looked up and Hana with tears still in her eyes. "Sarah..." She said. "I want my brother..."

Tea sat on the floor and hugged her knees to her chest. She then looked up at Kris, almost on the verge of tears. "Do you have any idea what's going on here?" She asked.

Kris put his back against the wall a slid down it till he was sitting on the floor. "All I know is that were dead." Kris said letting out a sigh. He put the back of his head against the wall and closed his eyes. "I thought we needed to get the hell away from those two. Something about them, especially that white haired guy, seemed off. Be shouldn't be here for long though, just long enough to catch our breath."

Tea rested her head on her knees and began to cry. 'How am I dead?' Tea thought to herself. 'How did I die? Why can't I remember?'

OOT: Ah didn't see Lullys post :/


Sarah nodded her head and agreed to go with Hana. Still looking down as they walked she answered Hana's question. "He has Red hair and his names Kris... He works at a 7-11 and he always smells like cigarette smoke."


Kris looked at Tea as she began to cry. "Ah sorry. I thought you knew. It came as a shock to me to but once I found out I started to remember things and... sorry."

Isaac opened the door to the Battlefront HQ. Two other guys came up to him. They smelled faintly of dried sweat.
"Yo man! I head the gunfire outside!"
The boys looked to Dominic.
"DAYUM! Is he okay?!"

"Trevor was at it again."
Isaac set his friend down on a couch.
"I gotta go though. Dom asked me to find some newcomers. Take care of him, 'kay?"
He saw Alice in the corner of the room with a Jamaican guy. His face turned aggressive.
"JEREMY! STOP HITTING ON THE NEWCOMER!"
He was clearly just being jealous.

A moment later, though, Isaac was sadly stepping out the HQ with a black eye.
"I hate that Jamaican playboy..."
He walked around for a bit, then finally bumped into Hana.
"Oh...you..."
He said in a depressing tone. He saw Hana observe his black eye.
"Don't ask."

Tea wiped away her tears. "I don't remember anything...the last thing I remember is standing outside of this school....nothing before that."

OOT: Heizen, I am a shadow   
And speaking of shadows.... Not swamps, shadows.

Spoiler:

Senka sat down on the bench beside Reaper and let her presence be felt. Not that she had to, he already knew she was there. The magic didn't work on anyone who already knew her. She calmly watched the fight Between Dominic and Trevor. There was paint on her hands and she idly toyed with a can of spray paint without a label.

Hana put a hand over her mouth when she saw Isaac's eye. "Really?" She asked shaking her head, "Can't you and Jeremy just get along already?" She placed a hand on her hip and raised one finger up on her other hand.
"Honestly the two of you are so much alike it's not funny." She paused to let it sink in, "But yet you continue to fight one another over everything. First it was because you thought his guitar was stupid so he said you had a bad taste in women. Then he told you guns weren't for real men and you insulted his sense of style. Not to mention the fact that every time some new girl joins Battlefront the two of you beat each other to a pulp on an hourly basis for her affection. I'll never understand some of you boys." She put a hand over her face and made a depressed sound.
"Anyway that was you shooting a little while ago, right? You were defending Alice?" She saw his grin and quickly interrupted. "Never mind. I know you came for her. But I'm helping her look for someone right now so you can go bother people somewhere else." Hana positioned herself so she was between Isaac and Sarah. "Maybe get that one cute girl to notice you? The one who ignores you? Class 2 A, right? That's the one she's in?
"Yeah, it is. You can go try and get her to finally see you. Maybe you'll get on the right path that way." Not that NPCs can see us though. I feel sorry for him.Another thought crossed her mind. "Did Trevor and Dominic fight each other again?"

Dominic looked up at Jeremy from the spot he'd taken next to Alice. "Sorry, I kinda stole your spot. But I need to talk to her, alright? You and Isaac can fight over her affections once I'm done with her." He saw a few of the expressions on some of the girls' faces in his peripheral vision change when he mentioned Isaac and Jeremy's... misunderstandings.

"No worries, brudda" Jeremy said with a smile that wasn't as big as before. "For you, I make an exception." Then he went off in search of someone else to play songs for.

"Sorry about earlier. That I didn't get there sooner." He said but Alice kept her face blank. "So I see you found the place okay. Didn't cause you too much trouble, did it?"
"Aren't you going to ruin the couch?" Alice asked him. He looked at his torn and bloody clothes and told her not to worry about it. She wanted to protest but no one else seemed the least bit concerned about it, so she let it go. When Isaac had brought Dominic into the room draped over his shoulder and looking too much like a corpse for her comfort she had been scared, and then guilt. Trevor had attacked him, she just knew it. And it was all because of her that he had gotten hurt. Anger soon followed and her hatred for Trevor increased.
A few moments of silence passed.
"Did it take you long to find the HQ?" Dominic asked again when Alice seemed to be ignoring him.
"Your penmanship sucks." Was her reply. "A girl named Hana helped me. If she hadn't found me I'd still be looking right now."
Hana helped you, huh..." Dominic knew Hana liked helping others, but sometimes he was afraid she'd push Trevor too far and get hurt. She didn't seem to care at all about the differences between Battlefront and the Legion.
"Anyways," he said changing the subject, "I'm sure you're full of questions for me. You were in a pretty hectic state last time we spoke, but it seems you've calmed down since then."
"Jeremy helped me come to terms with things." They hadn't spoken. She had been too afraid to even ask him anything. Truth be told he was a pretty intimidating, but friendly, guy. But the comfort had come from his guitar. The low melodies he had been playing had soothed her and she let her thoughts get lost in their calm, serene depths. "But I still don't understand any of this." She gestured with her hands, attempting to encompass her surroundings into her confusion.
He gave a small laugh at that. "That's okay. Most people take about a week to get everything down pat." He put an arm around her shoulders and was surprised to find that she was trembling. "Are you okay?"
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"Trevor and you fought. It's my fault your hurt."
"We always fight." He said, hoping to comfort her. "It's just how we are."
"But let's get the business finished first. How does that sound?"
Alice took a breath and collected her thoughts. "I'm dead." Was what she started with and Dominic nodded. "This school, Heaven's Academy, right, is supposed to be the afterlife." Another nod. "I'm here because I died. So where's God and all the angels?"
"No idea."
"So then what is this place? Why is the afterlife a high school? What are we even doing here?"
Dominic sighed. "It'll take a little while to explain it right." She told him she had nothing but time and then smiled a little so he laughed at her attempt at humor. "So what we know starts with this guy named Otonashi and the original Battlefront..." He launched into the tale telling her everything he remembered about what Otonashi had told them before he had moved on, leaving them all to manage things.
"Okay so let's see if I have all of this." Alice said when Dominic had finished his story. "We've all come to this place because of our regrets and once we get past these regrets we get 'Obliterated,' correct so far?"
"Uh huh."
"And while we're here we're supposed to have a blast and make friends and enjoy ourselves so that when we get obliterated it'll mean something wherever we go next?"
Dominic nodded, "That sums up my opinion on things."
"But the Legion and the new Battlefront are fighting over how the time spent her before being obliterated should be spent." Alice thought about all of it. It seemed so silly. They were fighting just because both sides thought they should get over their regrets different ways.
"Yeah but the problem is that Trevor and his followers think that this place should be some sort of factory or something." He threw his hands up in exasperation. "I mean how the hell can you be expected to get over your regrets if you can't take time to figure out what they are in the first place?" He seemed genuinely angry now, his expression darkening and his gestures getting more violent. "I don't mean to insult you or anything, but you don't look like a goddamned Buddha to me. Going to class and following the rules with blind obedience won't get anything done. It's no wonder his faction hasn't lost anyone. It's because not a single one regrets anything. All they want to do is play utopian dictatorship!"
Alice watched Dominic in the silence that had followed his outburst. He was slowly relaxing and she wondered what was really going on. It couldn't be as simple as all he had said. After all his was only one point of view. I wonder what Hana has to say about all of this....

OOT: I won't be able to post much today. I have company coming over and my internet connection is all over the place.


After sitting in the supply closet for a while Kris said "I think we should get leave now. It's only a matter of time before that white haired freak or someone else find us. You can stay in here if you want just give me your answer."


Sarah watched the two talk in silence.

OOT: Tea has brown hair with red highlights lol

Tea looked at Kris and nodded her head. "I suppose it's safe enough." She replied. "If they were looking for us, they would've found us by now." She added.

"Even if they did find us I won't have let anything happen to you." Kris opened to door and walked out. No one seemed to be there at least. "Okay the cost is clear."

Tea got up off the floor, and followed Kris. "Um...thanks.." she said, not knowing what else to say. "Um...my name is Tea Ishtar, by the way." She said, as she followed Kris.

Spoiler:

"sounds like Trevor and his thugs have been a handful to deal with today, but it's good to see that he hasn't obliterated you yet!"
Alec walked into Battlefront head quarters just as Issac was talking.
" So do you need some help finding the newcomers? I heard that Trevor's got men out all over looking for them."

Alec stretched out his arms and put his hand behind his head as he walked around the room a little bit. He sat down in a chair and took his sunglasses off to clean them. today was going to be an interesting day at Heavens Academy, isn't it? I wonder how those two are feeling right about now, if they're doing okay by themselves. I'd imagine that they would be scared not knowing there situation and being chased.
"I think it might be better if we where the ones to find them before his goons or the legion does. Scaring new people really isn't the way to greet a newcomer anyways..."

As he looked around he saw a new girl in the room.
" I'm sure that I haven't seen you around the acadamy before. I'm Alec and I'm glad to see that You've found Battlefront."
he put his sunglasses back on and smiled back.
"Oh and Welcome to Heaven's Academy. Did you run into any trouble on your way?"

OOT: Waiting for Lully's update before I do anything again with Sarah since she's with on of Lully's characters.

"Oh yeah... I forgot to introduce myself. My names Kris." He said a bit awkwardly. "Let's just get moving before someone shows up."

OOT: I was expecting a bit more of a response from sarah. Anyway don't expect an update until tomorrow or late tonight.

Tea nodded her head, still following Kris, thinking it would be safer with him, than with the guys from before. "Hopefully those guys from before don't find us." She spoke softly, as she looked around the halls. "There doesn't seem to be many people here." She said; having not seen many other people here since she had arrived. Though, this entire time, in the back of her head, she wondered: 'How did I die?'

"Will those two ever get along again?" Hana let out a sigh of relief. "Well okay. Next time you see him let Dominic know that it's three now." She looked at Sarah, "Okay let's get going."
As the two walked away from Isaac, Hana looked over here shoulder. "If I see those two I'll let them know you were looking for them."

Alice watched the new arrival as he walked into the room and took a seat. "Dominic can't write." She offered in reply to his question. "My name's Alice."

"She ran into Trevor first thing when she got here." Dominic told Alec when it became apparent that Alice didn't want to talk. "After that me and Isaac helped her out and I sent her here."

" Who knows if they ever will."

Alec winced as he heard Dominic say that.
"Not the best person to run into when you first get here, thats for sure. Glad you guys were there to help her.  "

he looked the new girl and smiled.
" Well Alice you have nothing to worry about, your with the good guys now."
Alec chuckled a little after he said that.
"We're here to get between trevor and kids like you, to make sure no one gets obliterated.  And we also like to cause mayhem for Legion and its members as well."