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Junko released Riley when Malodore came into the picture, watching the two of them quietly with tiny sniffles and an unwavering smile. There was no way she could frown right now, absolutely no way. Especially not when all her friends were here, and happy, and safe. But...but wait...where was Seiji...? "Seiji?" Junko said quietly at first, mostly to herself. Where was he? She heard Yaya and turned on her heel to watch her throw herself at Sharra, sighing with a bit of relief. One more safe friend. But where was Seiji? Junko continued to turn and look everywhere she could, her heart stopping when she did see him. Seiji! There he was! He was sa...fe...what? Wh-why was he hugging Sarias? Her stopped heart dropped into her stomach, and though the hug was brief she looked absolutely heartbroken. Why? Why had he hugged Sarias first? Before she could even do so much as turn away to hide what she thought had been an impossible-to-ever-happen-again frown he was by her side and pulling her up, hugging her too tightly and kissing her. Junko's eyes widened for just a moment and her heart fluttered happily, throwing her arms around his neck and returning the kiss. He was alive--or as alive as a ghost could be, anyway--and he was back with her. Her. She giggled as he whispered her name and nuzzled her cheek, burying her fingers in his hair and clinging to him for dear life. She had tried to make a grab for him before and missed, but she was not going to let that happen again.

But then she heard a screeching yell, an irritatingly familiar yell that made her skin crawl, her blood boil and her fingers clench against Seiji. How..dare she. Junko did her best to ignore her, not wanting to let Sarias ruin her reunion with Seiji. No. She couldn't let that happen. Seiji was hers, Sarias could just..back off. She held him tighter and hid her face against Seiji's neck, closing her eyes as tightly as she could. Her short hair twitched slightly, but being so short that was about all it could do. Shut up, Sarias. Shut up, shut up, shut up.

For a while it sounded just like what she'd been through, just splitting path wise. But then he mentioned a fire and her breath caught in her throat for a moment.

Fire? It was like Chritsmas, but with added insanity and fear. Thank Jack he'd been alright.

"It was kinda the same. For me. Sorta. Kinda. Nearly drowned after the crash, was below deck." Jack how long ago had that been, compared to what happened next it seemed trivial.

"But. I made it to shore too. Got supplies too. Couldn't find anyone, so I followed another group. We headed to the ships. We also had a few attacks."

"There was, er, notes. Captain logs. From Halloweeners. We decided to head to the lighthouse - I had Winnie with me then. And Sepheran. It was kinda. Iffy for awhile. The fog causes insanity, you know." She didn't mention what exactly they had all seen, what she had seen.

"Thats when I lost her. But we had to keep going. Made it there. Was kinda hard to enter but we did. I feel through the attic floor - dodgy building. Another student had lived there once."

"Then. We met Conquest. He had us trapped in these real odd stairs for awhile. To test us, we passed. He needed us to attack a spear wielding figure.." here she hesitated.

"Their weapons are students." There. She said it.

"W-we almost had him beat though! He was strong. But we where ants. And ants swarm. We swarmed well. Coward fled though."

Her grip tightened, this was where it got truly hard to speak.

"The room we had fought in was trapped. Had a portal but walking to it would end in death. Conquest said he'd help b-but the air was trapped too. So many died." Had she let out a small sob then?

"And then Famine was there with West and Tomoko and so many others and the portal was windows and crashed but Conquest beat it up till it worked and we went through andIdied.", all this came out in a rush, Mandy not even breathing.

"But I got back here. And your here, and so will everyone else be."

So it's all right.

"Err, wait," Barth said, "Go back to that bit about weapons. And insanity."

As Mal went in to embrace Riley, Jericho stood back and watched with a smile. It was nice to see them together, happy like this like most of the others around here. He was just about to take his leave, but then the doctor had reached out to grab him, pulling him into the hug.

For a moment, his smile grew as he held the two in his arms. There wasn't anything he had to say about it; words were currently lost to him partially due to the conflicting feelings swarming through.

With a relaxed sigh, he tightened his grip on the others and let himself get lost in the moment at least for now.

Continuing to watch the display of love Sarias tutted so slowly, she could see Junko glaring at her, grabbing her boilfriend with all her might, but still her eyes rested on her. Was she...was she jealous? Was she angry at Seiji for hugging her first? HA! That was too perfect. After all the ghoul had been through she had the nerve to doubt her boilfriend like that? He died, she may have seen it, she could have died too, felt the emptiness of that limbo and still she was so childish! To give her evils across the grounds, to be worried her boilfriend would stray? Well...who would blame him if he did! Sarias was Sarias, dipping and curving in all the right places, strong, confident and then there was her. Junko. Little childish Junko.

Well Sarias wasn't one to shoot a gift horse in the mouth.

She grinned at her and lifted a clawed hand, waving slightly to get the ghouls full attention and when their eyes were locked she mouthed some simple words.

"Grow up!" She sneered "You pathetic, worthless child." she carefully arranged her mouth and tongue to etch the words out, silence being her friend but speaking louder than she ever could and just to rub it in that little more.

"He. will, be, mine."

And her face erupted in laughter. To all others she had a case of the insanity fog. To her she was proving a point. Silly little air heads shouldn't be allowed to wield emotion, they ruined it, spoilt it. and again she would prove it.

"Yes, something of the sort was said to us as well." there may have been a bit of a sneer in her voice.

At his continued questions Mandy had the horrible realization that he hadn't known. They wouldn't have been able to make it through the fog without the mantra that it wasn't real.

"Yes. They where like reality. They could convince you of anything. It was rather, intense. Even when we knew what was happening, we couldn't get out of them, couldn't ignore them."

Grow up? Pathetic, worthless child? Junko didn't even wince for once as she was called these things, her grip on Seiji merely tightening. She was not pathetic, or worthless, or a child. She wasn't. She wasn't. And Seiji was not going to be Sarias'. It was that and the laughter that finally baited Junko into letting go of Seiji, smiling up at him as she hopped up on her tiptoes to give him a sweet kiss. "I'll be right back~." She chirped to him, giving the ghost boil an affectionate squeeze before she released him with very clear reluctance. She didn't want to let him go...

But Junko was tired of taking people's s**t.

Junko turned away from him and toward Sarias, still smiling sweetly as she clasped her hands behind her back and wandered toward the banshee. When she was close enough she rocked from heel to toe, playing up the 'child' bit just for Sarias' amusement. For now. "Hi! Sarias, right? I don't think we've actually met. My name's Junko! It's nice to meet you. Hey! Ummm, let's go over there!" Junko pointed in a random direction away from Sarias, looking as sweet and innocent as she always did. "It's really crowded here, and I'd really like to get to know you. It's kind of hard to do that when everyone's being all loud and stuff, you know?" She giggled and reached out to take Sarias' hand, keeping a tight grip on it whether the ghoul liked it or not. "C'mon~!" She chirped, humming cheerfully and leading Sarias off even if she had to force the ghoul to follow her.

Tahki was sure to stay as close to Amrita as she could. Though the Arctic gryphon said nothing her ears took in everything. Some how students had died and been brought to life. Admittedly the gryphoness was glad she had spent her time on the beach with Amrita and Tess instead of venturing out. Though it made the gryphoness feel a tad bad for admitting that truthfully.

Now Amrita was looking for Charlie. Tahki wish she could help but the gryphoness stood there silently looking a bit concerned. When Amrita and Christof were reunited the gryphon slipped away from Amritas side to venture on her own. Thats when she bumped in to something with pink hair.

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Charlie had died. Truly died. And the demon was aware he'd died but was now confused to why if he had died he was standing right here. He'd not bothered to look for Lizzy or Mac yet because the demon was still trying to get over the fact that he'd just died. All Charlie could do was stare at his hands and wonder what it would be like to be a ghost. He never wanted to come back as one of those if thats how ghosts saw the world.

And then Tahki bumped into him.

"HEY WATCH IT!" The demon shook his fist at Tahki before catching a glimpse at her head phones. "Oooh neat head phones! Were best friends now! My names Charlie!"

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Tahki confused and unable to think of a response could only manage.

"O-oh.. T-tahki..." Then it clicked. This must be who Amrita was looking for and she swore she heard some one calling out the name Charlie just moments ago. Was this the Charlie that everyone was looking for? "A-amrita.." Tahki turned to her friend, "I-I think I found Charlie.."