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Chronos knew that Hero wouldn't let her go out to patrol Barren Pines alone, despite whatever she said.

So, the Princess Senshi had decided that she would do this with Virgo instead, and assured Hero that they would be both fine, and that she should stay to take care of Aurelia. It was hard to reason with someone Hero was so deferential to; she was still unused to the other calling her ma'am.

Chronos was happy, still rather happy after they had found Virgo, as evidenced by the smile on her face even as they strolled around the school. Even as they were supposed to be looking out for other zombies who were hopefully not attempting to eat those who were alive...or at least looked alive. Or maybe that voice would come back again and she would find another senshi. Who knew?

"D'you know how many of our schoolmates became zombies?" She asked Virgo. The only one she had seen was Elke, who was also Virgo. On the contrary, Elke had been wandering about the school while they were hiding, so she would know, right?

As much as hunting had helped, or not helped, Ignacio was still starving. Starving for flesh, starving for answers, starving for life. While his stomach was determined to turn him otherwise, a determination had settled into his somehow functioning brain, a determination to set things right again as it was and come back to his old humanity.

His mantra: All actions had an equal and opposite. If he could become undead from being living, he had to be able to become living from being undead. It was that simple.

He just needed to find out how.

And so the seemingly human freckled self-described immortal found himself outside once again, scouring the grounds for any clues, any signs of humanity, anything that he could take back and report to Grayson. He was the only one Ignacio had found on this Apocalyptic Campus so far, and Ignacio planned to keep any connections he had tight and bonded; with another person he had someone who he could bounce ideas off of and help him not become distracted from his intended goal.

Ignacio brought his eyes to the sky and couldn't help his smile at the glowing sunlight. It was so beautiful. He could vaguely feel its warmth against his skin. Despite the fact that looking right in the light was a little blinding, Ignacio didn't care. He wanted the good feeling on his skin and he wanted the good feeling deep in his bones where the light never reached.

...Stop staring at the sun, 'Nacio. There were clues to hunt.

As he brought his eyes back down, he noticed two people walking together wearing incredibly odd outfits. One was holding a staff, another was wearing a dress, and they both had bows and incredibly odd brooches. One thing was for sure either way, their skin was not green. It was glowing.

And though his stomach growled in annoyance, Ignacio fought it down for another hunt: the hunt for information. Had he found some?! Had his determination worked?!

Ignacio dared to venture closer, putting his hands up in the air--albeit shakily thanks to the disturbing urges that bubbled up as he got closer and closer to their delicious, tender flesh and their glowing, healthy skin--to signify that he wasn't going to attack. And without even letting them acknowledge him, the questions came spilling like a rapid waterfall, almost as if he was trying to get them out before his mind shifted tides again. "You're alive. Can you help me? How did you--? Why did this happen? What do you know?"

Azzo wasn't far away. Unfortunately for him. He was under a tree sulking, unlike the typical Azzo that had came to Barren Pines, he was now a mess. Granted Zombie like, he had also on his mind three deaths.

Ignacio, Kimmie, and... Melody. His head swirled with how they died, each one more horrible than the last, Melody, the most innocent of all of them. The tears where long gone, his eyes dry. However he shuttered when he heard the words Live Two different voices echoing it, Melody and that orange haired Negaverse Officer.

For the hundredth time today he finally got fed up with the voices and hearing them, however something new pierced his ear, it was Nacio's voice... But it wasn't the one swirling in his head. His eyes grew wide. "No...." He murmured, "No it can't be...."

He stood up and looked around, he thought he'd caught a glance of something on the roof of one building, shaking his head he thought, I'm just seeing her because she made me kill Mel. I'm going insane...

However, with a second glance he spotted three others. Nacio was one of them. "Oh god damn it." He edged his way over trying to inspect the other two first. He didn't want any more cruel people telling him to kill those he loved.

He wanted to walk out and hug Nacio and apologize, but if those were who he thought they were they'd probably take that the wrong way. Thoughts swirled in his head again. Nacio, dood I'm sorry for killing you... that was supposed to be Me who died.... His thoughts went through many things he could say, Nacio, be careful. You're barking up the wrong tree. Oh and Glad you're... kinda alive. Heh sorry for shooting you...

Nope... none of those would do. He was getting flustered, so instead he slowly made his way, skirting around keeping a paranoid eye out for Nealite. He wanted to talk to the skirt girls himself. See if they'd just dust him and put him to rest with Melody. Live Those voices echoed in his head again. "Oh for ******** sake shut up in there." He said a bit louder than he meant to hitting his head with his own hands trying to get the playbacks and the voices to stop. Not realizing it might've caused the girls or Nacio to hear him.

"Yeah, it killed a lot of us I think," said Virgo solemnly, bouncing ahead of the Princess like she was scouting for something. This was good, because --Oh no. Zombie alert! In any other case, she might have laughed. It sounded so ridiculous! This was not a game, though, no matter how much she wanted to treat it like one. Virgo tilted her head a little and stepped in front of the Princess, one hand raised into a fist. "It's Ignacio," said the senshi, who knew - had known - most everyone. "I remember his hair, Princess."

She listened, her smile fading into uncertainty. Not too long ago, she - Elke, Virgo's human self - had been like that. Not anymore, she was human again, full and alive and that was wonderful.

"There was a fire, Nacio," she said. "The dorm building burned down." Hadn't Nacio died before then? Previously? Bacterial meningitis, they had said. Yeah, right, she bet that that's what people would be telling her parents right now. Hmph. Virgo was so alive.

When she saw the dark-haired boy approach, she frowned. "That one is Azzo. Don't worry, Princess, I'll protect you!" Pause. "Promise I will."

Oh good Lord, were they just going to stand around and chat?

The ends of her mouth were growing increasingly lower the longer Nealite watched the two students approach the senshi duo. What the ******** were these youma worth, if they weren't even going to bother attacking two obviously healthy, very much alive students?

Never one to wait, Nea hopped off the side of the building, her boots soon touching solid ground with a nice heavy thud (thanks to gravity mind you, not her weight). She huffed indignantly once again as she eyed the two worthless zombies, and began her own approach towards the senshi.

Her face lit up, however, as she recognized one of the two students. Azzo, her toy from the previous day, was still sulking around?

"Tsk tsk, Pet." She called out, making her presence known among the group. "And here I thought you would have learned your lesson from the other day!"

She forced the frown to disappear, a cocky grin now replacing it as she stopped in her tracks to stare at the two girls. "And who might you two be? I'm fairly certain I've never seen your faces around campus before. Registration is closed, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave, dearies. As in, now."

Sometimes, Chronos had wondered why people always seemed protective of her. First there was Jude, now Hero and Aurelia, and Elke as Virgo too. It was probably the whole princess thing; though she didn't really think she was royal, or anything like that. Being a senshi was strange enough, but being a princess was stranger. She smiled at Virgo, but hoped that the boys wouldn't initiate anything. After all, they were still pretty clueless about their powers.

"Who are you?" She asked the older woman, brows furrowing. Somehow, she got a very strange, almost sinister vibe off her and Chronos unconciously took a step back. "I've never seen you here either."

Pink eyes flickered to who Virgo had identified as Azzo, looking slightly horrified as he referred to the woman as 'Mistress'. Who was this lady? She could bet things were getting confusing to Ignacio; with one Princess and one Mistress here, but this wasn't the time for explanations such as that.

She didn't even know how to explain herself about being a Princess either.

What the hell?

It seemed that Ignacio had found a sort of information jackpot.

While they all stopped telling him anything, he suddenly had a load of visual and verbal cues to play with from their interactions, and Ignacio's eyes darted from left to right to take them all in. Was that Riff-Raff? Why was he calling the woman 'Mistress?' He caught the brief look of desperation and then wondered, perhaps, if Riff-Raff was now a slave of Jigsaw, that horrible man who had gassed Ignacio to death when Riff-Raff had tried to give up his own life instead. It seemed neither of them had really won in that situation.

But at least Ignacio still had some trace of humanity. All Riff-Raff seemed to have left was struggle. Struggle against this figure that seemed like she had considerable power, even considerable power over his own self. This automatically scared Ignacio. He was in control of his own body at all times, and as nonchalant as he was he liked being nonchalant on his own terms. He would stay away from this woman. While she was facing off with the two--the Princess with a staff and the other woman with a bow and a dress--Ignacio began to back up into a position behind them.

Perhaps he would be better off watching this from a distance. Why did they seem so unwilling to tell him anything else about this Princess they had mentioned? Perhaps he could learn more by observations, but it was obvious that they were against the woman who was in possession of the man who had attempted to save his life. If they were against that Jigsaw in any way, they were on his side and Ignacio figured that they were the ones who would win in this situation.

Plus, the one in a dress seemed apologetic that she wasn't telling him anything. But she did say that they couldn't escape. Couldn't escape what? The campus? What kind of monster was Barren Pines? Ignacio was finding about this all very late, considering he was the first to die before even the school was suspected of any foul play. The bacterial meningitis lie was never even heard by Ignacio's ears until recently, and he had no idea that the campus burned and the people had become flesh-eating unliving.

For once, Ignacio kept his mouth shut. For once, he wasn't moving around. And for once, he was continuing to keep his attentions on the situation in front of him. He was determined to dissect what exactly was going on here, and perhaps find a way to create and equal and opposite reaction.

There had to be a way.

There had to be a way.

Azzo looked at the girls and then to Nealite. Nealite wasn't happy, then again it just proved a theory. He sighed as he tried to slowly back away. There was no way in hell he was going to fight senshi.

When he was outa Nea's vision field, he stood up and motioned for Nacio to also hide. Azzo slipped his way back to the tree however if Nea was to look, he'd stop and grin. However as he was keeping one eye trained on the captain with a rather disdainful hate for her thoughts kept wishing he could kick her a**, he kept the other on the Senshi hoping they wouldn't say anything as he placed a finger on his lip.

Maybe if he was behind that tree. She couldn't find him to order him around. He was tried of killing, and even though he'd like to just be dusted, he didn't want to be dusted when being ordered around by her.

When he managed to get near the tree he ducked behind it and stood with his back to it, digging his nails in it. Thinking how nice it'd be to be able to be tied to this stupid thing. However he could still hear what was going on, so he wasn't really all that far away. Maybe he could cover his ears when she started shouting orders.... unless she found him and killed him first.