Chapter 13: the story about Eighth.

A group of orphans passed by a large boulder. They were seemingly searching for someone. They looked around the area, but didn't find anything, so moved on. As they left, Darky peaked out from behind the boulder and prepared a grenade. Then her phone updated.

4:00 P.M.: 1st and 3rd arrive at the place the battle with 8th started.

"Yes!" She quickly put the grenade away and started sneaking away.

Meanwhile, G and Flash were walking while trying to get their bearings.

"Where are we?" Flash wondered.

"I think we're near Eighth, based on Nan's dead end diary entry." G postulated.

"She'll pay for killing our friends." Flash growled.

"That's a new tune you're singing." G grinned.

"My memories have returned, so I'm feeling much more like myself. Though my new personality doesn't like it..." Flash frowned.

"That figures." G said. "I knew this would get complicated, but Scriptwriter fooling around with your memories CLEARLY caused problems... Hopefully we can fix everything when we get the God Diary."

Flash was about to respond when footsteps came from up ahead. G and Flash were suddenly yanked to the side, and a group of orphans ran past.

"I arrived just in time..." Darky whispered into their ears.

"Please stop whispering right into my ear... It's creepy..." Flash shivered.

"Baka. I see you guys survived." Darky said as the three of them stepped back into the open.

"We killed Tenth and Eleventh, but couldn't beat Twelfth." G informed sadly.!

"Things were pretty bad on our end." Darky sighed. Flash noticed she was tensed up and clutching her side.

"What's wrong?" Flash wondered.

"Those bastards injured me." Darky hissed. "I swear I'll kill all of them."

"What happened?" G asked.

"He teleported us into a trap. Eighth's orphans were waiting for us." Darky sighed. "We fought as best as we could, but we were exhausted. There are a TON of orphans. Then Nan died... Alicia went crazy and started rampaging. We got separated... Toxic, Alexis, and I kept fighting. Alexis died next. Then Toxic was captured, but my diary says they're keeping her alive. I kept fighting, and even managed to escape..."

"That's horrible... Those jerks..." Flash clenched his fist.

"Eighth is our next target, then. You guys have been fighting her, but Flash and I'll help now." G grinned. "Our first step is to reunite with Alicia." He looked at his Author Powers Diary. "Let's go!"

Meanwhile, Alicia was running through a crowd of orphans and brutally killing them with her knife.

"Die, die, you bastards, die! You fucking killed my fucking friends! Fuck you! FUCKING FUCK YOU!" Alicia screamed. She stopped, panting heavily and covered in blood. "FUCK YOU!" She started attacking again, though she was obviously tiring.

"We just wait for her to tire out, then she's done. Just like those other three." One orphan whispered.

"Yeah. Then there's only one left." Another orphan whispered back.

"Is that so? The other one doesn't approve."

"What?!" The orphans turned to find Darky standing behind them. She slashed their throats open with one deft movement. The orphans stopped and stared in shock at Darky's sudden appearance. Then, orphans suddenly started to drop dead.

High up on a nearby hill, G had a sniper rifle set up. He took instructions from Flash on where to aim and kept shooting down orphans.

"My diary is great for accuracy." Flash grinned.

"Next instruction!" G ordered.

Back down on the ground, Alicia and Darky had teamed up to relentlessly cut down the remaining orphans. There were a lot of orphans, but their efforts combined with G's sniping was somehow was chipping them off quickly. The two girls eventually ended up back to back.

"Bruh. Darky, how the fuck did you find me?" Alicia asked.

"G and Flash are back. G used his diary." Darky replied.

"Bae is back!" Alicia immediately cheered up and began slashing faster.

"Alexis is dead." Darky frowned.

"Never cared about her." Alicia giggled.

"That's... Really fucked up." Darky replied.

"Don't care!" Alicia giggled.

Flash looked down his diary entries.

4:23 P.M.: a huge group of orphans is heading this way.

"We've got company on their way." Flash frowned.

"Then let's go help." G quickly packed up his sniper and pulled out his gun. The two boys then ran down the hill. They joined up with Darky and Alicia. G started shooting at the orphans.

"What's the rush?" Darky asked seriously.

"There's more coming. We can't beat them in direct confrontation." G grimly replied.

"I've got this." Darky suddenly sheathed her katana. She reached into her bag and began pulling out knife after knife to impale the orphans. She quickly incapacitated all of them. Seeing a big group of orphans approaching. She quickly pulled a grenade from her bag and tossed it at them, causing a big explosion between them and the group. When the smoke cleared, the four diary owners had vanished.

In actuality, they had simply fled. After some climbing, they had regrouped at the top of the hill G had sniped from. G put the sniper rifle back into Darky's bag.

"You sure brought a lot of stuff, Darky." G grinned.

"I like to be prepared when I'm murdering people." Darky replied. "Here's some extra ammo. You used up all your bullets, right?" Darky handed over said item to G, who reloaded his gun.

"So Nan, Alexis, and Toxic all died..." Alicia looked down.

"Toxic didn't try to fight back, so they spared her. She's a prisoner, though." Darky informed gravely.

"At least my bae's okay!" Alicia giggled and hugged Flash.

"Are you really okay with Alexis and Nan being dead?" Flash frowned.

"Alexis yes. Nan no. Those bastards are gonna die." Alicia growled.

"We have a problem." G frowned.

"The fuck is it?" Alicia glared at him.

"I think Scriptwriter will try to interfere with us taking down Eighth. We already killed two people in his alliance, so I'm sure he's pissed. We need someone to keep him distracted while we fight Eighth." G frowned.

"Bruh. Lemme kill the bastard. I'm the best out of all of us, so I should do it." Alicia smirked.

"G and I combined couldn't-" Flash began, but G cut in.

"Yup, have fun! Make sure you defeat him thoroughly!" G quickly typed on his Author Powers Diary and warped Alicia to the Twelfth Dimension.

"Why did you do that?" Flash frowned.

"Once Alicia makes up her mind, it becomes troublesome arguing with her." G replied. "Now, our next step is taking out the army of orphans."

"We only have three people..." Flash pointed out.

"Which is my I'm glad we have Darky's bag." G grinned.

"Bombs are quite useful." Darky nodded. She placed her bag on the ground and unzipped it, revealing a ton of assorted weapons as well as another big bomb in the center. She tugged a smaller, compressed bag out of it and filled it up with all the extra ammunition she had brought. She then handed the smaller bag to G, who added his suitcase to it. It was a VERY small suitcase, since it only held phones. G then pulled the bag over his shoulder.

"This is both of your last chances to get weapons from this bag." Darky warned.

"I think I'm good." Flash shivered.

"Whatever. Take these." She stuffed an armful of grenades into both G and Flash's hands. "We split up from here. Only take on small groups. If you're getting overrun, use a grenade."

"Right. With hit and run tactics, we should be able to take down an army of inexperienced orphans." G nodded. He took the sniper rifle from Darky's bag and stuffed it into his own bag. Darky zipped the bag up and pulled it back on.

"Well, let's go."

Flash quickly wished that he had taken more weapons with him. The orphans were quite vicious, and he was overrun every time. After only a few encounters, he was out of grenades. He at this point began to avoid battles and search for his friends. Unfortunately, he was tracked down by a group of orphans and forced to fight. He attacked with his pipe, but the orphans easily overpowered him and began to beat him with assorted blunt weapons.

"Ow!" Flash squirmed and tried to escape. Suddenly, the orphans began to die left and right. Flash blinked as the orphans tried to identify the source of the death, but they all ended up being killed. "...G?"

"Aye!" After a few minutes, G had descended fully from a hill he had been sniping from. "You're pretty hopeless, Flash."

"Hey! I don't have weapons expert stuff like you and Darky!" Flash frowned.

"Still, you could've tried harder... We're wrapping this up. We won't be able to defeat the whole army as hoped, but we're hoping to take out a large amount of it." G said. He and Flash began to run somewhere.

"Where are we going?" Flash wondered.

"We're gonna go to the rendezvous point. Darky'll meet up with us there." G said.

Meanwhile, Darky used her last grenade to blow up a group of orphans.

"I only need my katana now." Darky sighed. She pulled her bag off her shoulder and carried it to high ground. After a while, Darky saw a large group of orphans marching below her. She quickly made her way to a narrow passageway a little further ahead of the group and found a large boulder. She placed her bag behind it and unzipped it. Darky then tapped away at her phone.

"Remote control mode, activated." Darky grinned. She then ran to the middle of the passageway. The orphans soon came into view. As soon as they spotted her, she took off running away from them. They gave chase. As soon as they reached the boulder, Darky pressed a button. She smirked as the bomb exploded, killing all of the orphans.

"Plan complete." Darky kept running.

After a little bit, Darky met up with G and Flash on top of a hill.

"All done?" G wondered.

"My diary says that the rest of the orphans are gathering where the explosion was." Flash said.

"Good. We have an opening to Mother's Village." G turned and led the group around the orphans and to the orphanage.

Soon, G, Flash, and Darky were looking at the orphanage from some bushes nearby.

"How do we get in?" Flash wondered.

"Listen up, everyone. Our first objective is to rescue Toxic." G whispered.

"Toxic's in there?!" Flash asked, surprised.

"According to my diary, yes." Darky nodded. "I can use it to lead us to her."

"Good." G nodded.

"But how do we get in?!" Flash whispered.

"Hm..." G pulled the silencer off his gun and suddenly began rabidly firing. The orphans surrounding the building freaked out and ran around, searching for the sources of the gun shots. Once they were gone, G led the two into the building.

Meanwhile, Toxic found herself in a prison cell with her arms and legs chained. Next to her was Minene Uryuu, similarly captured. There were a few guards standing in front of the cell.

"...so... You got captured too?" Toxic asked awkwardly.

"Shut it. When I get out of this, I'm killing you AND Eighth." Minene grumbled.

"Okai, but... I didn't do anything to you..." Toxic said.

"Tough luck. You're in a survival game, what did you think would happen?" Minene scoffed.

"I think I've heard that before..." Toxic said wryly. At that moment, the guards fell dead. G, Darky, and Flash entered the room. G examined the corpses and came up with the cell keys as well as Toxic and Minene's diaries. He unlocked the cell.

"G! Flash! Darky!" Toxic grinned meekly. "Where's Alicia...?"

"Fighting Twelfth." G replied. He unlocked Toxic's chains and handed her her diary.

"I'm glad you're safe, Toxic." Flash smiled.

"Likewise!" Toxic giggled.

"I figured I'd find you here, Ninth." G grinned.

"Shut up." Minene grumbled.

"I think I've finally been able to start restoring your memories, but it'll take time. Have you reconsidered allying with us?" G asked.

"Stuff it. I want my memories back and that's it." Minene grumbled.

"Fine." G unlocked her chains and gave her her diary as well as his Author Powers Diary. "Keeping my diary with you should speed up the memory restoration process. You can use it to reach the Twelfth Dimension when you're ready to ally with us. Until then, you're alone in the middle of a fight between all the other diary owners, who all have allies."

"Whatever. I'll let you guys kill each other." Minene snatched the diaries from him and took off.

"Was it a wise choice to give our enemy your diary?" Flash frowned.

"Time will tell." G grinned. "Now let's go kill Eighth!"