Raine's wheelchair skirted down the sidewalk, flames rising from the tires of her wheelchair, and just as she turned the corner she met… a dead end. She jammed her foot into the wheelchair's tire spokes in utter defeat. Hot tears rolled down from her beautiful blue eyes as the reeking stench of garbage made her feel sick. She tugged at her dark brown hair wildly as she felt that the cruel, brick walls of buildings around her cackled mercilessly as the tall, worn fence in front of her made it impassable. There was nowhere else to go, and the police were approaching too quickly for her to turn around and escape. "No, no, NO! I won't, I won't!" she thought with all her might, "I wish I were somewhere else. Anywhere, but here! I- I don't want to be alone anymore," she finished vehemently. This was it, this was the end for her, here it was and just as the police turned the corner... she felt wind swoosh from beneath her feet.
Raine thought, "That wasn't possible. Wind only hits against you, not come from beneath you." Suddenly, Raine felt the floor disappear from beneath her feet and in shock, when she looked down, something unexplainable was happening! A purple swirling puddle had appeared beneath her feet before she knew it, she was struggling against it. There was nothing to grab onto though. Raine thought, "This had to be a sick joke by someone else! Please let this be over!" She groped at the air desperately for someone to save her from this, but there wasn't anyone there to stop her great fear from happening. Hopelessly, she tumbled in.
She squeezed her eyes closed in terror as she expected to flounder in the deep puddle, but it wasn't a puddle. The swirling circle of purple had become a hole as streams of purple danced around Raine, making her feel dizzy. Raine shut her eyes therefore and called for help while she had little energy left. She was floating in it and as the mysterious puddle slowly started closing, she saw that the last of her brown hair had gone through the hole. She was floating in it for a moment, before hearing her wheelchair rattle as though it was disturbed by something.
She heard the cops turn the corner and an astonished, feminine voice gasp, "She- she's gone! There's no way that she could've jumped over that wall. Didn't you see? She's a cripple!"
Raine tried crying for help, but apparently, they couldn't hear her in here as they probably couldn't see the puddle as it got darker in here. Raine lashed at the top of where she fell through, hoping to find an opening. She'd willingly get taken by the cops right now.
To her dismay, they still couldn't hear her as she screeched for help, drying her remaining tears as she heard a masculine voice chuckled, "Well at least we don't have to chase her down anymore."
The female must've elbowed the guy in the chest making him give an outcry of surprise and slight pain. She frowned as Raine heard them stride off, "I swear, if you did this again..."
Raine panicked and tried swimming against the currents of this strange puddle as she could see the entire place go dark at the top. She felt herself being pulled down, but she struggled. She gasped, "What if they set this trap? No, they…" Suddenly, she was sliding down the puddle as it turned into a tunnel and lit up. She had a sense that… it was a portal?! But that wasn't possible, now was it?! One end of the portal closed as she could see another one open. Raine felt her hair rise up around her as the air crackled as if electricity was building up. She could hear something at the other end, but refused to open her eyes. She questioned, "Is this how it feels to be taken to heaven or am I hallucinating?"
"Someone's coming!" rang a feminine voice with hope as everyone's hairs raised due to the electrified air. Then the sky said, "Pop!" and out dropped Raine from midair, screaming at the top of her lungs as the teardrops flew from the of the corners of her eyes. "AAAAAAAAHHHHH! Oof!" she cried as she landed with a thud and a splat into the mud with all four limbs sprawled out.
"No, unfortunately, three limbs," Raine reminded herself. She reminded herself of her most appalling memory of her tragedy as she spat out the revolting mud out in disgust while more mud trickled from her hair. Raine sighed at her misery; she was a cripple, her right leg devastated in a car accident at the age of 12, four years ago. She shuddered from both her worst memory and from the bitter chill that seeped through her clothing. She got up as she trembled from all of her limbs throbbing with pain.
She attempted to sit down on her wheelchair, which she did not pay for, and… "Wait!" she noticed, "Where is my wheelchair? How was I able to stand up without anyone's help?" She had already leaned too far back though, and she couldn't prevent herself from plummeting into the filth once more, while catching a glimpse of… two legs!
Some kids in the audience, who had seen her arrive, snickered at her folly before someone with a familiar voice burst out from behind the crowd and reprimanded her for ruining her nice clothes.
"Never mind her clothes," shrieked another girl, darting to the front of the crowd. Her nose blaring heat like a bull, and mid-tone red eyes slit with power, gave this girl held the perfect look for a an iron-headed leader. She screeched, "Look out behind you!" while Raine was still marveling at her miracle of having two legs once more.
Raine felt her senses alert her. She did not hear that girl's warning, but her senses beckoned her to look behind her. She turned with an inquisitive look and shrieked at the this hideous horror behind her. What seemed like a rotting corpse of a human groaned as blood dripped out of its previous wounds. Raine shuddered and without thinking, she unsheathed a katana sheathed her back, and leapt into the air gracefully as she glimpsed the color of her hair in a nearby puddle as she twirled in the air. Her hair had mysteriously turned from a dark brown to raven-black hue as her eyes twinkled from blue to brown. Secretly, she liked it better that way. Breaking out of her thoughts, she landed a powerful blow to the creature in the skull and as the audience gasped in awe, the creature toppled in finality. Then in a split second, its remains blinked thrice like a light before bursting limb from limb before it flashed and vanished.
Raine gasped in utter horror at what she had done and attempted to drop the sharp weapon, but it remained in her hands as if it had been super-glued to them. She shook her hands, attempting to detach the katana, but every attempt failed until she decided to sheathe it.
Afterward, Raine put her hands right back in front of her, but found another strange surprise. Instead of her ten fingers, they had now been replaced by crescent shapes like a robot's hands, or as if she was a LEGO figure. She gazed at this other queer and new characteristic. She also couldn't get enough of staring at her two, petite feet until another scream erupted, but this time, not from the crowd, but from above her. The next thing she knew, she was slapped in the face by a mint-green ponytail, and a girl who had just appeared had flattened her like a pancake and rammed her back into the mud.
"Nice catch," sniggered a girl in the spectating crowd with auburn hair, which was decorated with cinnamon sprinkles and autumn leaves. Raine blubbered, face still in the mud, saying, "Ouch! Gerroff of me pwease!"
"Oops, sorry!" squeaked the new girl with mint-green hair. Her decor included an ice cream cone like a birthday-party hat as she had a knee-length plaid dress that was criss-crossed with green and brown stripes. She leapt off of Raine and by mistake, she had kicked Raine in the back of her head. The new girl squeaked, "Sorry! Sorry!" as Raine groaned in pain, saw stars twirl above her head, and face-planted herself back into the mud.
Suddenly, the fierce, red-eyed girl shouted once more, "Behind you!" The girl in the plaid dress pivoted around just as Raine got up, and to Raine's agony,the girl's foot caught her face once more, and she was sent sprawling into the mud again as the crowd roared with laughter or sympathized her.
The fierce girl with the red eyes and black hair seethed at their stupidity at handling dire situations and shouted, "Oh, step aside, Juniors!" With that, she charged forward as Raine staggered away from her, thinking that that girl was going to attack her. The fierce girl reached out a hand, but instead of slapping her, as Raine had expected, she took a weapon. The next thing that happened before the crowd's eyes was bullets whizzing everywhere before Raine could even question which weapon this girl had taken. Hearing bullets fly and the sounds of rapid firing, Raine realized that the girl had taken… her minigun!
Raine swiveled her head side to side to take in her surroundings as the racket of the warrior could be heard as she landed a kick in a shrieking, green face of a creature as she put her last bullet into another creature. She attempted to shoot more bullets, but hearing the empty sound of the gun, she used the empty weapon to slam the last of the horde to the ground. The crowd cheered in amazement just as Raine completed her observation, "... a baseball stadium, a football field, statues of people gunning down more horrid attackers, a frozen pond, a bell tower, and… did I just see someone? No. A… Oh no, a school!" Raine had realized where they were, and shrieked terrified, yet almost exuberantly to the crowd, "No. Out of all games, we had to stumble across the most treacherous one to survive in."