Whom Shall It Be?

Two monkeys, near the clothing shop Ferrin had sheltered in, froze admits their aimless wandering. Their strange eyes suddenly flickered in a strange light.

Just like somebody had typed in a new command while erasing their previous- wandering, they turned around and started strutting on their way.

The moment they turned the street, they bumped into a group of three monkeys walking bolding like them.

The two parties giggled like little girls excited to go on an adventure and marched onward as one.

***

"She will wake up soon, right?" Ferrin glanced at Paul, his palm gently enveloping Aria's hand.

Paul sighed while gazing inside Ferrin's eyes, "She will! She lost a lot of blood due to which she lost consciousness. It would be best if she's given a blood transfusion... but its not a necessity for now." Pail massaged his dry throat, 'Oh God! What mess have you trapped me in?'

"That's a relief!" Aoci nodded her head from the side, despite her face pointed at Paul, her eyes sneaked atop Ferrin's face.

"I-I guess we should just pray for now." Ano's words stuttered, most of them staying glued to her throat.

Ficko blinked her wide eyes while gazing at Ano, after a momentarily surprise, she nodded her head, "That's true."

Ferrin felt something pang his heart, with eyes squeezed in a mixed recipe, he stared straight into Ano's eyes. 'She...' A heavy sigh escaped his lips, his thoughts wondered far away, 'I wonder how... she's fairing.'

He closed his eyes, calming down his turbulent heart, 'They... those who rescued us, they were guardians as well, weren't they? I wonder... if they managed to escape that Giant unharmed.'

Feeling something weighing down on his chest, Ferrin attempted a futile attempt of sighing it away, 'I wonder... will we survive? When will this hell come to a halt? Why are these nightmares... so nightmarish?'

Ferrin shook his head, glancing down at his mother's pale face. A smile stretched across his face- like a small shade being overwhelmed by the shadow of a mountain of pain flickering in his eyes.

'No matter what... SCREW IT! No matter whether Ferrin lives or dies, even if I have to kill Ferrin myself! I will protect you, mom!' A wretched scream erupted from within Ferrin's mind, something that seemed to be protesting to his claims. Yet he continued to caress Aria's face, his mocking grin accompanying his wait alongside his eyes- peeled to the roof's door. 'Come! Come Genius! I, Ferrin will fulfill his vow! Even if you do force his end, you shan't cease to exist either!'

The group's eyes simultaneously dragged atop Ferrin's face, attracted by his chuckle.

***

The Genius's eyes flickered, his tongue escaped out of his mouth, wiping the intrigue from his lips, 'He's... prepared!'

"Hahahaha! Truly! You truly intrigue me! Who are you!? You can't possibly be a lowly human!" The Genius held his chin, while snapping his other hand's two fingers. Signaling... the beginning!

The Dwarf's eyes glowed ominously, his lips seeped out of his mouth, gently sliding across its lips.

***

"Hahaha! Suits you right, I was honestly getting tried off constantly having to look up at you. Now look! You are where you belong, having to look up to us." Posco pushed back his black hair smugly, his grin doing anything but leaving his face.

"Oh come on Posco! Do you honestly expect it to hear you from over here?" Tipp snickered in disdain, his eyes gazing down from atop the broken top of the tower.

"Oh! Come on! I know it can't hear us! Just look down!" Posco did just that, his eyes sneaking a peek at where previously stood a large stadium, but now, in place of a stadium, they lay a hole.

A giant hole extending to a depth where only the abyss could be said to dwell. Its clean, circular gigantic maw waiting to be fed skyscrapers, just the level of existence the guardians had dug it out to be.

And deep, deep within the depths of where no mannerism of light dared to breathe, the Giant roared ferociously in his small form. Its bared teeth grinding against each other in hate that could tear apart anything.

His tiny brain still in the midst of deciphering just what had occurred. It took a deep breath and tried to rationally analyze things... which he decided to do just after another hateful roar.

The moment his feet stepped atop the stadium, like every other thing, he expected it to crumble beneath his monstrous weight but instead, his feet passed through it and admits his paranoia, he didn't even realize it!

The next step he took seemed to be on air and when he lifted his other feet in his ignorance, it came crashing down and injured its leg terribly whilst falling down here. The freaking pit seemed to be dug exactly for him! In his giant form, only his head peeked through, the rest? Buried deep within the nowhere.

In its frustration, it let out a barbaric scream, yet sadly, this time? Neither the wind screamed in fear and nor did any insects lived nearby to shiver in fear.

'Humph! Pathetic bug! Crawl like the insect you are.' Loki's eyes flickered in unfathomable rage as he peered down into the abyss, uncaring if the abyss dared stare back or not.

He took a step back, his eyes glanced at the broad sky, 'The two day's effort did pay back! It was rather easy digging this pit with everyone's joint collaboration. Though the major credit goes to Vop with his demonic power. Just what kind of beast is that newbie? Able to improve anything? Even superpowers! With him and Posco, all we needed to do was enhance Posco's superpower- Submachine gun until it turned into a mega rocket and blew the ground to smithereens!

And Tipp did a wonderful job off finding the location for excavation with his superpower. Then Miki also did well in scanning things through her power. Not just them either, all these newbies! They all are insane! I can't help but pray... they all make it to the... third circle.' Loki's eyes flickered in complicated emotions as he trailed past everyone.

A mocking chuckle escaped his lips, drawing everyone's attention onto him, 'I can't help but wonder, am I praying for them? Or cursing them?' He took a deep breath, stabilizing his rampant emotions and looked forward, "Everybody remembers the next stage right?"

Everyone nodded their heads whilst opening their mouths, "Ye__"

"Good! Nobody does! Let me repeat then!" Loki nodded his head heavily, expecting junior mistakes from these newbies, "We have to wait until its forced to turn into its gigantic form and tries to escape, then we all will bombard it with attacks and causing it to fail again and again! There's no option of letting it succeed! We must be the only victorious ones!

Then, according to Miki's power, we must make it believe its succeeding as well for 2 hours, the limit for its power! Before going into cooldown! When those 2 hours are up and it goes back into its shell!" A vicious and unsightly grin spread across Loki's face, "We head down... AND MASSACRE IT! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!?"

"YES SIR!" The guardians' terrified and shivering voices shouted out in unison. Nobody having the guts to say anything about Loki shutting them down at all, in this particular instant.

Sike's purplish eyes fluttered gently, he gulped down the saliva secreting at double speed and murmured to himself, "So its true... all the three stars and above guardians become... psychos."

The saliva kept on drenching his throat from top to bottom, his mind wandering atop his own future, "Will I become... someone like him as well?"

Vop, who was right besides him, stepped up to him and patted his shoulder, "Pray... you never have to face what he did."

Sike felt as if... Vop's eyes were mocking him. He could do no more than... nod his head.

***

Knock! Knock!

Ferrin's ears pricked up, his eyes shifted from his mother to the only door on the roof secured by reeling.

A creepy smile stretched across his face, his body morphed into a monkey, from his back stretched out a tail larger than himself.

"Oh Genius! How childish? You want to play these mini-games before diving into the main play? Weren't i supposed to be the child here?" He placed Aria's head in Seilo's hand, who had readily stepped forward after seeing him transform into a monkey.

He jumped to his feet and casually walked towards the door, his tail swaying left and right.

Without hesitation, he swung open the door, coming face to face with a bright monkey face waving like a kindred soul towards him.

Ferrin's eye pierced straight inside the monkey's, after successfully subduing the storm trying to take over him for an instant, Ferrin flashed the brightest smile he could muster and waved back.

His tail peeked out from behind and also waved towards the monkey.

The monkey, as if struck by inspiration nodded its head in awe and also pulled out its tail while waving.

Ferrin nodded his head in mutual understanding and inched closer his tail with its tip rolled slightly, intending for a fist-bump.

The monkey screeched loudly in excitement while bumping its tail with Ferrin's.

Ferrin chuckled and rolled his tail around the monkey's.

The monkey suddenly felt the air stir, "Kek!" Its head tilted slightly in surprise.

"Goodbye!" Ferrin chuckled, the mask shattered from his face and he pulled the monkey back with all the strength in his tail and hurled it away, down the reeling.

"Quit your childish games, Genius!" Ferrin's cold gaze kept on staring at the empty stairs in front of him.

The monkey's screams didn't last half a second as its voice suddenly turned surprised from shocked as its body suddenly landed atop the roof.

"Kek!?" The monkey stared around, seeing the many tails suddenly grasp hold of the reeling from various places, a ecstatic laugh burst forth from its mouth.

***

"Whom shall it be? You? Or You? Maybe You?" The Genius's finger moved past the group before moving from Seilo to Aria, "Or you?"