Reincarnation Arc: 4

Ah, I get it now, They're all insane. Then whatever happens next is not my fault.  “Knowledge right?” I respond

Kyra opens her eyes filled with surprise “and here I thought you were clueless. "I would apologize but it wouldn’t do you any good for what comes next. Because your so sharp letting on anymore won’t help my chances of survival. lucky though, You already answered the question of why you don’t know anything.”

The bus suddenly comes to a stop crashing to the ground and everyone not incapacitated begins to get up from their seats one after the other they exit the bus with relative ease. Until we “humans” are the only ones left behind

Azul shoots a look out the window “Looks like we're here, newbie.”

I respond scratching my cheek out of anxiety “Calling me a newbie feels a little bit, uh disrespectful.”

Azul says. “No.. It’s accurate.”

I respond “I mean, yes, but, like, you're making it sound like I'm in for something more than I can honestly handle.” Both of them laugh, which isn't a good sign sign. Now I feel like slightest wrong move will cost me my head.

Kyra shakes her head “I forgot to formally introduce myself, My name is Kyra Oreselirose. The final and last member of my line. She nods to Azul “gonna introduce yourself?”

He shakes his head and sighs “Azul blackblood, of the fortune and fate branch, member rank: apprentice.”

Kyra does a little wave with her right hand “We'll catch you some other time, newbie, if you're still alive, that is.” They both leave me and get off the bus, leaving me surrounded by the vomiting students. I wait until One of them finally catches their breath. "Where hell am I? What's going on?” the man coughs 

 he’s just like me I would feel bad if I didn’t help him I sigh “Welcome to hell, my man.”

He has a similar physique to me just a little shorter and he’s far more well-kept in terms of appearance. The man scratches his short black hair furiously his brown eyes darting back and forth “What do you mean by hell!?”

I scratch my chin “Yeah, You missed a bunch of jerk offs telling me that We're not alive anymore.”

“What do you mean by not alive? I was just outside my-“ he pauses “apartment and I had that stupid notification to get on that damn bus trip And all of a sudden, I'm on it.”

“It's better if you see then if I just tell you.” I say gesturing towards the window.

As the rest of them begin to awaken, some of them look to the window, and yell “What the hell is that?” “oh my god!” “fuck me...”

Me and the black haired man look outside and he says “I take it back we really have gone to hell.’ stifling his tearing up.

A large barren wasteland surrounded by giant floating statutes all of them with their hands together in a prayer like trance blood streaming out of their eyes into massive pools of blood. Heavy sandy winds whip dust against the windows. figures of all types wavering in the dust storm just up ahead.

“How do we get out of this?” The black haired man hisses

“The exit's right there.” I joke

“I'm not stepping out there. You crazy!?” the black haired man near-screeches

“Move.” One of the huskier darker-skin guys in uniform grumbles his long wild black hair that reaches to the ground drags across the floor but it barely distracts from the multiple burns and slash scars across his tough-looking face and terrifying stitches reaching from both ends of his mouth to his ears. he brushes past me almost causing me to stumble onto the floor.

As he steps off the bus, we all watch him closely from the inside he treks across the sands with relative ease the only thing he does is covering his eyes from the sand in silence we wait the tension in the air feels like it could crack my skull open the sound of sweat dropping to the ground could be heard as we wait.

“So do we go out there?” The guy with short black hair says.

“Might as well it’s only way forward and can’t make a plan with no resources.” I say

Maybe it'll take off again with all of us inside. One of the students shouts.

And then we can go home? Another student shouts in response.

I shout back. “As if an easy solution like that would appear.”

“Come on.” I hiss at the short black haired guy

The short black haired man says, “I don't really know what's going on. But by my experience staying in one place is for fucking suckers. So I'll crash with you for a second, old man it’s keith by the way.

“Old? I'm fucking 20.” I protest

“Ah, so your middle-aged then” keith smirks

“damn brat!"  I grumble

I Start to walk off, but no one else follows me except for keith.

“No one else coming!?” I shout.

Silence among the crowd each one of them contemplating staying on this bus or moving on. A princess cut red-haired girl with sparkling amber eyes and a magnificent slender physique speaks with cherry red lips “I’ll tag along you guys seem better than the rest of these losers.”

“Name?” I ask

“It’s Laura noragami. The Pleasure is all yours.”

I pinch the bridge of my nose “right.”

We hop off the bus together into the whipping sands staring down into the storm ahead of us.

I catch a mouthful of sand, coughing the sound of bells ring out deafening the wild winds the world clears up and in front of us and in front of us lies a mass of humanoids very few from my bus and some similar to them their gaze craned upward.

I follow their gaze to see a hooded priest in golden robes descending from the sky several massive balls of of multi-color lights follow in their descent light pours from the darkness of their hood and the remaining 4 holes on the robe as a voice echo across this now chess board-like landscape