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(( Hey, guys, sorry I'm late... We had a slight problem at the work place... After eight hours of serving ice to patients, taking test tubes filled with blood and other bodily fluids to the lab, filing many papers, and sitting on my a** all day... My friend ended up in the emergency room. Luckily, my mom was at the hospital doing paperwork and she went down to check on my friend while I had to stay at the Intensive Care Unit. After a while, I was allowed to go visit her in the waiting room for an hour before she had to go in and get a test done. Which was a really good thing 'cause I never see her anymore and it's nice to be able to share stories of 9th grade and makeup tips. xd Ooh, and I had only gotten 3 hours of sleep, so I was extremly tired. >>;

Now that Jiwin is logged off, I have to wing it in hopes of not screwing anything up. ))

Sniper was slumped forward on his desk, eyes closed and limbs unmoving as he remained sleeping. In his dream, he was on the motorcycle, heading towards the cliff. However, this didn't frighten him. Death never frightened him. It was an natural thing, just the last chapter in a life, nothing more and nothing less. However, an image of his sister appeared, her lone figure standing in the middle of the road with her arms out streched, eagle style, eyes pleading with remorse. "Get out of the way!" Hagiri shouted, upon realizing that he couldn't steer the bike. It wouldn't move, but kept speeding on it's straight path for the cliff and his sister.

It was all so fast, yet so slow. The bike had slammed into her body, then suddenly veered from road and violently bumped into a wall. The raven haired teen had fallen off long ago, rolling somewhere near the accident scene. When standing up, his blurry vision caught sight of the busted headlight blinking faintly while the bike was on its side, tires spinning slowly since no human hand was controling the aclerator.

On the wall, pinned by the fallen bike, was his sister. Slumped over.

Brunette strands of once silky hair coated in a thin blanket of ruby blood, lips parted, and the whites of eyes shinning in horror. Her once powerful stance she held in the road was defeated easily by the crushing metal; her skinny limbs now limp and the detirmined frown swept away by the pain she felt.

Shaking in fear and shock, Hagiri did his best to keep his balance and tread towards his sibling, gripping his hair with twitching and gloved fingers. "Oniisan..." He cried out softly, indigo eyes wide, but not a drop of salty liquid fell. He walked closer and closer... Only to see, the bottom half of her body shredded, her torso remaining. Like a doll who was violently cut in half. Her legs were there, but they were burned and torn, as the road and tires cut into her muscles.

The bike had indeed stabbed into her stomach and ripped her in half.

"Hagiri..." He raised his tear stained face to watched as his sister managed to make a tiny smile and call out his name. "Hagiri..."

"Stop!" The young made yelled, falling to his knees is both dispair and shock.

"Hagiri..." The smile remained as she continued to call out his name; continued to taunt him with that soft yet pain filled voice.

"STOP IT!!!" He remained on his knees, suddenly falling foreward and planting his hands on the slowly growing puddle of blood on the ground. There, he stared at his reflection, stared deeply into the purple eyes widened and filled with tears.

"Hagiri listen... You need to wake up... This is a nightmare..."

He stared vacantly into his siblings eyes, tears still rolling down his cheeks.

"Have you forgotten?" She mused softly, her mangled body suddenly shifted off the wall, his bike was probed up, the broken parts repaired... But, most of all, she was in perfect condition. No longer covered in blood, no longer in half. The dreary road leading towards the cliff morphed into a feild near their apartment complex, a area covered in slightly itchy grass and wildflowers. Her favourite place. "I'm pyshic, Hagiri. I felt your pain."

Sniper glanced down at his, which were no longer in a puddle of blood, but not embedded in a small pond that had peaceful dragonflies on the surface. He was silent, the tears drying off his tan features, and remained on his knees, staring into the water with a blank expression.

"You're at that new school, right? The mission? Someone, Hagiri, someone is trying to harm you."

He shook his head and slowly stood up, brushing off the dirt from his knees. Wipping his face with a sleeve, the teen took a moment to take a deep breath and reflect slightly. His sister was fine, his teammates were in trouble. "No. Someone is trying to harm the whole class." With ease, he took out a pocket knife and fliped it into the air, catching it to aim the blade near his arm.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm waking myself up and don't you dare tell anyone you saw me cry."

She smiled and watched as her brother prepared to stab himself. "Oh, and Hagiri, mom says to clean your damn room when you get back."

"...Sure."

Outside the dream, Hagiri was actually holding his trusty pocket knife. However, he seemed to be in a daze, eyes closed like he was a puppet. Suddenly, the knife was thrusted into his arm, blood seeping quickly to soak the long sleeve of the magenta uniform. Instantly, he opened his eyes, wincing in pain as he ripped the knife out from his limb and placed a hand to cuff around his mouth and nose. Hagiri could last a just about two minutes without taking a breath, thanks to training all those years in his child hood when his family headed towards the local pool and he was dared by the other kids to remain under water for random time periods. Even as a teen, a few elementary students still asked him to perform the famous trick.

As for how he knew that it was a gas causing there bad dreams... Hagiri hadn't eaten a single thing since yesterday afternoon, not a nibble of anything. No one at the school could've of slipped them something and the hissing sound from the vent was quite evident. His hand remained covering his nose, eyes glancing at the other students to see who was in reality and who was in la-la land.

"NGH! YOU CHEATERS!" The former theater teacher hissed, his muscular figure standing on top of a desk in the office as he watched the classroom through an orb. "Using barriers! How rude! And how in hell did they manage to when I use ki-blocking barriers!? SOMEONE MISSED UP ON THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND WHEN I FOUND OUT WHO, THEY'RE DEAD. DEAD. DEAD!" He slammed a fist into the wall, eyes closed in fury. Her body shifted into his true form, no longer did he have the soft brown eyes and slicked hair. Yellow eyes, much like Ani Toguro's, glared harshly into the empty office, avoiding the urge to once again glance into the screen while his chopped brown hair replaced the professional black strands. "Hm..." He mused, taking out a cross.

No, not a religious cross, but a cross that had strings attached to it to control... puppets. He was known as the "Puppet Master", his ablities included viewing memories from the victims and creating lifesize and real-looking puppets. They could fight, speak, torment, torture, die, kill... all under his command. However, all of his victims didn't agree to fear the puppets, so he sometimes had to boost the effect with drowsy gas.

There was a downside, however. Each time he created a puppet of a person, he would gain the personality of the person. Making him bipolar. Each personality fought with the other, making his mind into a battlefeild. But, whatever. Each time his voice changed and additude shifted, it was cleary funny to see the shocked look on the victims face as they finally realized that this demon was indeed very crazy.

"Alright, students..." He mused again, twirling the cross into his hands while activiting a button on the desk, yellow eyes again peering into his orb that allowed him to view the classroom.

"Let's see how you handle this new scientific form of matter..."

A gas of deep marron sailed into the room, flowing freely with the other gas. The ruby smoke surrounded the barriers, stripping the barrier of its ki and gathering it into its molecules. Surely, the demons could do all the wanted, created any barrier they could, but it wouldn't make a differance. Any attack of spirit energy or ki relased was automatically sucked into the molecules.

(( Aw flip, the teacher persona was alone, wasn't he. Gawd damn....>< Another screw-up by the wonderful me.))

(( Ok, let me try again >> ))

Raven turned deathly pale as her barrier began to fade. She remained on the ground, and sucked in a huge breath, holding it. She glanced over at Hiei, giving him a look that clearly said we're not going to be able to keep this up.

((Hm ... Molecules ... Well, if that "Totally Spies" show is correct, heat causes molecules to move faster. So make Sure Hiei doesn't use his Fist of Mortal Flame attack ... But if heat makes them move faster ... Would freezing the room over halt the effects?))

(( The teacher is not in the classroom, he is watching us through some orb which acts as a screen or something alike. We can't see him I believe))

Unlike the others, he wasn't inside a barrier, the gas shift didn't affect him, he had no barrier to protect him, even if Raven's had approached with the intention to help. Now they were all in the same condition.
It was not real, but the loathsome fear and uneasyness encroached his heart. Dead. He is dead. He is not here. I killed him.
But now matter how he tried to convince himself, he knew who was before him. He found himself staring up at the face of his worst nightmares. He was here. A restless wraith haunting him even though he was dead. Karasu.
To say that he was afraid would have been an understatement. Horrified was more like it. He was petrified with fathomless, traumatic, morbid dread. Those abhorrent, bloodthirsty eyes conquered every inch of space within his obscured vision. The raven’s cruel, depraved words consumed his every thought, became his very world.
The amethyst dephs of the raven's eyes pierced his soul, yet, he struggled to bury the fear and kept pacing towards him.
The fox stopped before him and glared with his remaining courage

((Well, it does both. And yes, I watch "Totally Spies". xd I'm only 13 here! gonk

Edit: Wouldn't it be cool if the Hiruseki were like miniature bombs that you throw and whenever they came intact with something, they explode and freeze whatever it touched? xd Sorry, don't mind me, I'm feeling a little weird today. sweatdrop ))

The barrier disintegrated before her fuchsia eyes. She began to violently cough before grabbing her fans and making a violent sweep at the crimson gas, managing to temporarily push it away. "What the," she gave a small cough in between her sentence, "heck, is going on?!" She swept at the air again, a fairly large twister resulting in of it. "I can't keep this up for long." She murmured under her breath. She began to rapidly work the gears in her mind, trying not to let the invisible gas cloud her mind like before.

(( I'm 14 and have seen that show, like, twice. >>; Anyone seen "Duel Masters"? >>;;;;

Um, from what I've seen... Yes, the teacher is in another room. Yes, any elemental or phsical or mental attack uses your own ki, so it would just be sucked up in the molecules. Yes, I am crazy for writting such a long post at 5am in the morning. And, yes, I was talking to myself on the last part. eek sweatdrop domokun ))

"Oh, oh, hm." The man paused, vindictive pleasure glowing vaguely in his golden eyes as he stared into the orb with a hand on the desk. "This is so fun; why in the world would they fight back?" He smirk tainted in pure demented poisen merely stretched as the demon leaned forward and leered at the orb.

"Even more so with that 'Suuichi' figure. Who knew a grand fox could fear a mere crow armed with cheap bombs." Golden eyes swept down to stare at his hand, as if considering something. He created puppets by weaving ki between his fingers. First the strings then the body itself.

"Urgh, no way." He finally decided, sniffing in a snobbish manner and closing his eyes before straightening jacket. "Such a crazy, crazy, man. I don't want to be obesssed with a kitsune that could easily send out some weeds to feast on me."

((Half-assed post 'cause I'm bored. Sorry, no action yet. Gotta wait for Ji-ji. XD ))