“New World”

The white haired woman stood up, walking up to Nico with her hands on her hip, glaring up to him with an upset expression.

"C'mon, spit it out, who are you..?"

The rest of the strangers approached as well, besides the red haired woman. Nico didn't know what to say, as Kiara walked up, luckily saying it for him.

"I am Kiara and this is Nico, from another world. We're here for different reasons.. I'm here to stay, and Nico's hiding until the cops get off his tail."

They all seemed a bit confused, as they were implying that their were other worlds.

"You're a convict? I see.. We'll I'm Reece- Wait a second..!"

She grabbed Nico's wrists, lifting it up to examine his two rings. Her free arm began to mutilate itself, the bones and flesh forming into a gorey blade in replacement of her arm.

"You have two rings, it's impossible to wear more then one without going fucking crazy..! That's what happened to our friend…"

Nico pulled his hand back, shaking his head as he held his hands in front of himself, reassuring that he isn't a threat.

"No, I'm a Ring Bearer..! Every 100 years someone in my family is chosen to wear multiple rings, or something like that.. Or was it every 1000 years.."

Reece's eyes widened, her arm returning to normal as she crossed them both, looking back to her group.

"Hey, Evan, didn't you say something about that before?"

The whote haired man walked up, who seemed to be Evan. He wore a black fedora and a labcoat, seeming like a smart guy.

"Yes, but that's just a legend.. I didn't think it was true. He seems pretty normal though, he may be telling the truth.."

Reece thought long and hard to herself, before nodding, and stomping off towards the red haired woman.

"Okay, you two will follow us now, we may need you for our current mission, and no, you don't have a choice..!"

Nico sighed, though Kiara quickly agreed, walking with her. Nico sighed as he followed Reece as well. Reece was glaring down to the red haired woman.

"This is Uvie, the ruler of this place.. She knows something we don't know and she won't tell me what the fuck it is..!"

She began stomping on Uvie, though Uvie just began giggling, squirming around as if the stomps tickled here.

"AHAHAH, REECE, STOP I'M GONNA PEE, AHAHA!!!"

She shouted out. The blonde man walked to them and tore Reece off of her, Reece swinging her arms around trying to escape.

"Hey, I'm uh, Bennett. I sell things."

He seemed like a pretty simple guy, not strong and hot headed like Reece, and not smart like Evan. Though interestingly his eyes were wrapped in bandages, making his sight questionable.

Evan helped in restraining Reece , who kept trying to kick at Uvie. Nico sighed and placed his hand between both Reece and Uvie, firing an explosion forth, as both sides were startled, falling back, though Uvie jsut kept on laughing.

"Ouch.. What the fuck is that!? How in the fuck did you just do that!?"

They all stood up, including Uvie, though Reece quickly restrained her. Evan approached Nico, examining his arm.

"This is sort of like the mechanisms in Kafka's arms, just way more advanced.. are you perhaps from the future?"

Nico shook his head, holding his arm up.

"I don't think so..? I originally figured out how to fire explosions from my prosthetics back on an island when I needed it, though that version was way worse. I just kept on developing it as I went on."

Reece looked in awe as she restrained Uvie's arms behind her back, staring at Nico's arm.

"Wow..! You might be smarter then Evan."

She laughed, just trying to tease and tick Evan off, in which Evan shook his head frantically.

"He just works in mechanisms, I work in chemistry, biology, and just science in general, you don't get it..!"

Everyone laughed it off, though Bennett was oddly looking around, in surprise as he seemed to realize something, tapping on Reece's shoulder.

"Hey, uh, where even is Kafka?"

Everyone looked around, staying quiet as they heard a creaking sound, following with the sounds of wheels.

They all walked to the sound's location, a woman in a wheelchair down a hill. She was quite the beauty, whit braided blond hair, dressed in the outfit of a maid, her features like that of a dolls as she kept trying to wheel herself up the hill, only to roll back down each time.

"That's Kafka.."

Bennett ran down the hill, helping her back up. Kafka looked to Nico and Kiara in confusion, trying to poke at Kiara. Kiara seemed confused herself, staring closely back at her.

"This girl seemed familiar to me.. but.. I can't completely remember. Strange…"

Kiara shook out of her stare, putting her hand to her chin as she thought long and hard, having a similar feeling. Nico was extremely confused, as Kafka didn't only look like a doll, she was literally made of plastic, with the joints of one too.

"Damn it, Kafka.. I kinda wish that your legs didn't get blown off in that explosion, even after what you did.."

Nico butted in, examining Kafka as she was startled. Nico kneeled down to examine her legs, before she slapped him, thinking he was trying to catch a glimpse.

"Ow.! Hey, what was that for.. I was gonna see if I could make prosthetics for you.."

Kafka's eyed widened as she realized her misunderstanding, chuckling awkwardly as she reached up, gently caressing the cheek she slapped.

"Ah.. I'm so sorry.., That'd be wonderful, thank you.."

She kept caressing his face, as Kiara pulled him back, looking at him weirdly. Reece cleared her voice to gain their attention, her back now mutilating as a hand of flesh came out her back, restraining Uvie as she crossed her arms.

"Enough chitchat! We gotta find out friend.. I'll tell you two all about them as we get outa this forest."

Everyone nodded, Reece marching off, Uvie giggling as she's carried around from the mass of flesh. The group followed her as they walked through the forest, a new journey has came for Nico.