i can hardly believe i'm alive today. i've spent all of it appreciating that i'm here to breathe the air, walk the streets, feel the sunshine. what if things had been even slightly different? we'd all be dead.
last night, we had a mission involving an immensely powerful shadow like the one that attacked the dorm about a month ago. none of us were really expecting it -- though minato-kun said he 'had a bad feeling' and tried to prepare us for it. i ended up falling asleep, but while i was, mitsuru found something.
...akihiko-senpai had to wake me up. i guess i was being difficult, because when i did, i saw that he must have slipped into my room and was carrying me up to the command office. i got all flustered and ended up running away after he accidentally dropped me. /sigh
from what i heard at the time, mitsuru had only pinpointed the shadow's location. it was on the monorail that we use to commute back and forth from the dorm and school, the one that runs from iwatodai to tatsumi port island. we left to get there, and since it was within walking distance, it didn't take very long... mitsuru said she would provide backup from the station and that we would have to walk on the monorail tracks to get to it. minato was chosen to lead us again (i think we'll just be keeping him appointed as our leader) and we went off to find the shadow before it could do any damage.
getting there wasn't hard. in fact, it was almost nice to be able to walk on the monorail tracks. it was quiet and peaceful, so long as you could ignore all the blood and that giant moon. i thought it was weird that when we made it to the monorail car where mitsuru sensed the presence, the doors were open... train car doors are usually fastened shut during the trip, right? but we had to get on no matter what, so we did.
we all had enough time to get on before the shadow trapped us in the train car. that was frightening. mitsuru told us to be careful and make our way through it, which we did. at first there weren't that many shadows on it. then one popped up by itself, and ran away. if there's one thing these shadows don't usually do, it's run away. most of us knew that the shadows must have been up to something, but despite that, junpei insisted that we could handle one measly shadow and ran off to kill it even when minato told him not to.
nobody wanted to go after him. it was reasonable, i know... splitting up our forces would only worsen our chances of survival if a bunch of shadows ambushed us at once. but i felt bad for junpei. i wanted to make sure he didn't get hurt. i ran after him, which seemed to warrant a bunch of shadows popping out of hiding to fight me on the way, but i eventually made it to him. we struggled against a trap of at least six shadows all attacking him at once -- probably what that first shadow had been leading him into -- until the others caught up and we regrouped safely.
then the monorail started moving again.
it wasn't that the dark hour had ended, but that the shadow in control of the monorail was starting to move it. none of us were sure why... but then we realized it was because the shadow was going to try and make the monorail collide with another train. for whatever reason, it would go to lengths as drastic as sacrificing itself just to be sure that it killed us. it was our job to kill it before it managed to do that, not only to save ourselves, but to save all the passengers on the monorail and avoid mass public panic.
it was terrifying, i won't deny that. but i wasn't as scared as i thought i should be. i don't know... i just wasn't too scared. i tried to stay calm with minato and follow his orders so that we could make it through. we made it to the actual source of the control within a few minutes -- i think it was called the 'priestess arcana shadow' -- and we had to kill it in order to get to the command room, because it was blocking off the only path to the room. we had to fight with the monorail crashing ahead, with mitsuru constantly coming in to remind us that we only had a few minutes left to stop the monorail before it crashed and crushed us all to death...
i don't remember much after that. i mean, we fought it... but one of my knives stabbed right into it's eye. it screamed.
...
we went to a store to get a treat before we went back to the dorm. shokora-chan paid for mine... that was really nice of her. she's so kind to me. she's so open and friendly, too. i wish i could be like her.
i went straight to bed when we got back to the dorm. we were all exhausted.
exams are coming up soon. today was pretty normal, but i wanted to update about that since it was on my mind. i'm not sure what good this blog has been for aside from chronicling my life. i just never got into using my computer for very much. it's a small netbook laptop, hah, ametoki (my brother) got it for me before i left to go live in the dorms. that was a few years ago. all i've done with it is write down notes and surf the web, really... i'm sure i could do more with it.
but i digress. i should probably study some while it's on my mind. i'll try to update again soon. ^_^
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