She was afraid of many things.

"Liz, Patty! Let's go!"

"Yeah!"

She hated monsters, bugs, snakes, mice, frogs, dogs, mummies, and ghosts. She was terribly afraid of school examinations, storms, thunders, and illness.

And death.

Liz looked at her sister, and both of them transformed into pistols, jumping in the air and letting Kid get them instantly and point them at the giant snail in front of him.

However, she hadn't known before that she was so terrified of snails she couldn't even do anything but tremble in his meister's hand.

"I'll take your soul!" he shouted, and pulled the triggers.

One of the pistols fired, but the other one didn't. Kid shot again, with the same result. He gave a surprised groan, looking at the weapons he held in both of his hands, his mind filled with anger. No way. His stupid partners are making him totally asymmetrical. The snail opened its mouth, shooting a solid ball of wavelength at the boy, but Kid quickly rolled away.

"What the hell are you two doing?!" he shouted at his weapons.

"It wasn't meh~" Patty answered, laughing.

"Liz?"

She wanted to answer, she wanted to say "I'm sorry", but words just weren't able to leave her lips. The only thing she saw was the big and scary snail in front of her eyes, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't ignore the fear she felt.

"Liz?" Kid repeated. "What's wrong with you?"

"I... Can't.. Aa..." Liz suddenly changed back into human almost crying, grabbing Kid's arm, still not being able to speak. She closed her eyes to keep the image of the snail out of her sight.

"Watch out!" Kid yelled at her, pushing her away from another wavelength ball shot out by the snail. With the pistol-formed, confused Patty in his hand, he tried to jump away, but it was too late. The snail's attack hit him on the stomach, tossing him about ten metres backward.

"Kid!" the two girls cried out his name at the same time, Liz immediately rushed toward him. He tightened his fingers around Patty, sending her the message "don't transform back!" without words. He tried to get up, but could barely move his limbs.

"Are you okay?" Liz asked, getting down to her knees next to her meister.

Kid slowly lifted up his arm, took Liz's hand and gave Patty to her. Liz noticed something dark under his body, and realized that it was blood.

"Take its soul..." he whispered.

"But I..."

"Don't worry, just take it." he gasped out in a low voice, losing consciousness.

Liz took a deep breath while standing up, her legs were shaking. Looking down at her fainted partner somehow gave her a little courage. She has to shoot. Or else all of them would die. The snail set off toward her, and she felt her whole body paralyzed by fear.

"Go for it, Sis! Go for it!" Patty encouraged her. Liz felt her mind cleaned by her cheerful voice. It's all right.

And she closed her eyes, and lifted up the pistol, pointing at their enemy.

One shot.

Two shots.

Three shots.

Four.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

Eight. Because eight was a symmetrical number.

And the world fell apart.

AN:
Despite writing the opposite in my profile, I finally decided to make a fanfiction longer that 1 chapter. Thanks Lafeedeslilas for the snail (even though it didn't come out so funny, I can't write funny things no matter how hard I try DX) and for inspiring me by her amazing work ^^
My English still isn't perfect, but I hope it's fine.
Oh, and review, please! I would like to know how many of you want me to continue this story XD