Editing 7 Nights:Prologue

~Prologue~ ‘SE = Sound effect’ (note: please think of a good SE for those parts)

SE: swinging/slashing sword

In the darkness, the white-blue shining burning tip of the blade slashed through the monster and burnt away all of its outer shell.

SE: slashing through a monster

The monster moaned, but only for an instant. It swings its scythe/saw shaped claw towards us at full speed!

“Heh…”

I quickly dodge the attack. The claw slashes through the air, crushes the asphalt ground and creates a huge hole in the ground.

I am tired… But I make sure I don’t pant, taking enough distance from the monster, and I keep my eyes focused on my prey… Inside my hand is a metallic cylinder shaped handle, and coming out of it is a shining blade, creating rays of blue and white.

“Gii… Gigigi!”

I point my ‘Laser Blade’ at the monster who is taking its time pulling its claw out of the hole it made in the asphalt. Its face is an upside-down triangular shape, with multiple eyes on each side of its head. It is glaring at me, the wound I gave him must’ve made him angrier, as it’s gritting its jaws so hard that it’s making huge screeching noises. 
Its disgusting body faced me, with 4 legs coming out of its chest area allowing it to stand up.

Being shined by the lights of the Neon Sign, this monster, if you describe it as a normal insect, is the closest to a pray mantis. Although, calling it a ‘pray mantis’ when it’s over 3 meters tall, is a bit reluctant. 
“A small pray mantis is scary enough, but this isn’t fair!”
I remember from the back of my head, I saw it when I was a kid, the scene of a feasting pray mantis. Just like how a grasshopper gets devoured by a pray mantis, will I also, by this monster’s claws, have my body ripped apart one by one? You’re kidding me! This has got to be a joke! 
“___Gi!!!”
The monster has moved! The gigantic figure covers our distance apart within seconds. It’s fast! Even if I back away, all it’s going to do is come even closer. All I can do is stay and fight, can I do it?!
“Giguiiii~!!!”
The monster jumps to me with no wasteful movement and stretches its claws aiming straight for me! I was able to avoid a direct hit, but I feel huge pain in my left shoulder. The scythe shaped claws must’ve ripped off some meat there.
But! That’s all! Without caring I kick the ground and jump straight to the monster, I hold my Laser Blade and…
“Hiyaaaah!!!”
I gave the chest area, the root of all six legs a huge blow!
“Gi…Giyuuuuu!”
The monster makes a huge screech from the top of its head. I dig in my shining blade deeper into its body. The noise it makes is just as bad as the smell that comes out from his burning insides.
“a…Haa… haa… haa…”
It seems it’s going to be my victory. Now, for this moaning to stop, I dig in my blade even more and more.
“Ga!”
When I had put my guard down it quickly got its claws to stab the back of my leg. 
“Arghh!”
It scoops right into the back of my leg, my body falls downwards. But the thing awaiting me was not the ground, it was the monsters other claw! It stabs into my stomach, and my body gets lifted up into the air.
But I’ve already stabbed it! I stabbed its chest already with my own hands! Why is it still moving? Why, why is it still alive?! How much vitality does this creature have?! This isn’t fair!
“Guh… Puh…!”
I spat out some blood… The stomach acid is sour and my throat is burning. The smell of my insides coming out and blood mixed together makes my nostril go numb.
“You…Get… Get off me!”
The pray mantis’s ‘feast’ has started. Its scythe-like claws and its sharp fangs, were made only for the use of killing their prey. Its bigger jaws keep chattering making noises like “Gichigichipichapicha”, while the smaller jaw starts to feast off me. As if I’m some France dish, it cuts my meat into pieces and puts some into its mouth.
“u..chi…gachi…guchu…”
Without even taking a break, it keeps feasting off me. I think I’m gonna go crazy. Being eaten alive… This is torture!!!
I shake my blood filled thoughts away, and I try to reach my right arm towards the toy sword which was originally my Laser Blade. But, my finger doesn’t reach the weapon, all it does is cause droplets of blood to run down my finger.
“Argh… Arghhhhhhhh!!!”
I felt extreme pain run across my entire body, and for an instant I lost my consciousness. 
What was that…!? 
I don’t want to see a pray mantis happily chew apart my body… And, I sense that, it is about to reach my ‘important’ parts…
This is bad! Anymore than this is bad! I’m going to get killed! I don’t want to die like this! But, I can’t do anything about it… It has completely disabled my movement and I can’t do anything.
“Ju!... Gijigiji…”
Ouch! No! It hurts! No! It hurts it hurts it hurts!!!
“Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

---*BANG!!!*

The sound echoed the area. In an instant, its entire body has been smashed by something rock-hard.
And the pain that has been killing me has reduced down.
“Giuuuuuuuuuu!”
The monster screeches. The half closed eyelids have now completely opened up, and if I look at it even with my blurred sight, I see a pray mantis jumping and screaming and rolling around like crazy. From the stomach area and below had been blown off.

I think ‘back-up’ has finally arrived. I have been released by the monster, and had been dropped to the ground.
“Guh…Cough…!Heh…”
Then something pops in my head. I swallow in all the blood whirling in my mouth, stretch my hand to reach and grab the toy blade.

Despite my shaking body, I stand up, but I’m wobbling unbalanced. Then I focus my mind onto the ‘toy blade’, and the plastic object turns into a sharp metallic blade. The object starts to shine blue and white. This isn’t enough! I must put in more energy!
“Wuoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
I focus even more. I use all my will power and sharpen my consciousness. The lighting blade shines stronger, and starts to become gold. All the power causes the air around me to mix in and creates many explosion noises!

The pray mantis, having half its body blown off, is still crawling around using its scythe-like arms and is trying to get up. It done well for an insect, I can say I’m impressed. But…
“It’s over now!”
I dived to the pray mantis! But that moment I felt the biggest pain come back right into my entire body… But, that doesn’t matter!
As if drawing a semicircle I swing down my blade towards right in front of me…
“Gi…”
The pray mantis head flies off! My blade keeps cutting through and chops its arms off.
The monsters body with no base drops to the ground.
I, so exhausted myself, fall to the ground also.
“I… I beat it…”
I was panting really hard, panting really fast without a break. The dry ground, absorbs all my blood streaming out of my body. It’s okay that I defeat that monster, but at this rate, I’m gonna die… Well, at least it’s a lot better than being eaten alive by a pray mantis…

“Sakuya!!!”

My mind that was floating away quickly came back to place because of that loud voice calling me.

“Sakuya! Are you alright? Sakuya!”
A girl in school uniform speaks to me. A girl, who is usually aggressive, is unusually caring about me. She is leaning over me. In the girls hand is a Hand Gun. That is what saved my life.
“! You have a terrible wound…”
The girl, not worrying about the blood staining her clothes, puts her gun on the ground and leans over my head.
“Akeno…”
My voice which mumbled the girl’s voice was a lot worse than I thought.
“Thanks for that. You saved my life. Are you okay yourself, Akeno? Have you received any wounds?”
“You should worry about yourself, not me! Sakuya… What should we do? This terrible wound…”
“It’s okay, this is just a dream, just a nightmare… I won’t die, probably…”
“‘Probably’, isn’t good enough! If you die, who’s going to protect me!?”
Akeno frowns at me. I’m glad because it’s just like Akeno to add extra irrelevant words into everything she says. Even if her voice is trembling and tears are running down her eyes.
“W… Why are you smiling? I’m seriously worried about you!”
“I know… I am glad that you’re worried about me, but…”
“But… What?”
“You’re usually tsun-tsun (snobbish) so… Your worried face is cute… Kinda…”
“Wha-”
Akeno looked surprised, maybe if the situation wasn’t the situation she would’ve blushed… I think I just did a confusing thing.
“You… You idiot! Even if you compliment me like that I’m not happy! You have a bad personality!”
“May…Arghh*cough*!”
“Sa-Sakuya!?”
I coughed blood out again. I’ve lost so much blood already… There’s still more!? I think I’ve lost too much… Thanks to that I don’t have any blood in the edges of my body… So I don’t feel anything on my fingers and even my head… It feels weird… If I realize the pain has gone too…

“Just wait a sec… I’ll give you treatment!”
“Yes... Please…”
I’m becoming tired and sleepy, I can’t keep my eyes open and I’m getting so tired it’s hard for me to even talk.
“Let… Let me rest… o… ra…”
“No! You can’t sleep! Open your eyes! Please!”
Akeno’s voice starts to fade away. I can tell she’s shaking my body. But… Give me a break… I’m so tired… I really need to sleep… It… It feels really good like this…

“G…Night…Ake…o…”

I just managed to say that sentence, and then I had rested my body into a deep, deep sleep.




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