FWG: I only own Aria, Yuri, and the centipede.
Summary: How the hell was I supposed to know that the bug was actually a God, hell-bent on getting revenge for being squashed with one of Mom's books. So where in the world are we… "Yuri, how do you know Chinese?" "The Internet."

Reasons Why You Shouldn't… Smash A Bug With A Book

End… or Beginning

I read the final letters of the game with aggravation. I've been waiting over a year for this game to be released, only to have it end with a cliffhanger. Sadly, it's going to be at least another two years before the third game comes out. The game is called Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Resort, the sequel to 999, was a combination between a visual novel and murder mystery.

It was a pretty good game; unpredictable and good characters. It answered some of the questions from the last game, but it brought up even more. I couldn't wait for the third game to come out because I needed answers! I wondered if there were any spoilers up on the Internet yet-even though you never knew if those are true or not…

Suddenly, a shrill shriek brought me out of my internal debate. That voice...'Aria', I thought. My older sister by a year and skinny as a bean. Her short strawberry-blonde hair was dyed a bright red and the bright hazel eyes she had were darker now and suffered from her insomnia. Her long and lanky legs seemed out of proportion to her big bust. Her pale skin was covered in head to toe in freckles. Honestly, if she really wanted to, she could be a model. But, her heart was set on journalism.

I sighed tiredly, before getting up off my seat and making sure my 3DS was off before I went to see what had terrified my sister. It was a rare chance to see her like this. Aria normally kept such a straight face and the only time that I ever got that chance to scare her was whenever we watched a scary movie. This, of course, wasn't very often because she was hell-bent on staying away from everything dubbed horror or scary.

Sorry, I got off track. Anyways where was I… Oh, yeah rushing down the stairs so I could see what caused my older sister to scream. There she stood in her room, balancing on her bed pointing towards the wall next to her door with a trembling hand. "There's a bug!" she yelled out, pointing.

I turned to where she was pointing only to see a centipede as big as my pinky crawling on the wall. A bug. I should have known. Aria was terrified of them. Personally I couldn't stand spiders. I made sure to memorize the look on my sister's face before leaving her room to go get one of my mom's books. There was no way I was going to use one of my books to squash the bug, and neither Aria nor my Dad had anything that could squash it.

Four flights of stairs later, I was back in my sister's room, book in hand. "Kill it!" she screeched. "Yeah, sis I'm about to." I said with a yawn. The centipede had moved several inches since I had left. It had taken me some time to find it again. I aimed the book before quickly swinging it down on the centipede.

Underneath Aria's heavy breaths, I heard a zapping sound. It was like an electrical socket had an energy spike. I gave my sister a curious look, and the confusion could be seen on her face. She must have heard it to then. My eyes traveled back to the book that I had used to squish the centipede.

The source of the strange zapping sound was coming from the book . Or rather, the other side of it. I could see faint traces of static along the wall, they began to looked like miniature lightning bolts. A kaleidoscope of colors had surrounded the book. I gawked at the strange and unscientific happenings.

"Yuri! What did you do?" My sister yelled from on top of her bed. Why is it that she always automatically assume that I did something? "It's your room. How could I do something?" I sent a glare her way, but it didn't seem to faze her. "Then whose fault is it?" It wasn't a question. I knew my sister well enough to know that she never asked questions. She only demanded information straight up, and made sure that there was never any room for arguments.

"It Dad's fault," I said with no hesitation, "At least until we know otherwise." For as long as I could remember, I had blamed everything that I didn't know how to explain on my Dad. At first it was just a joke to lighten the mood between my sister and Mom, but they thought that I was serious. I couldn't tell them it was just a joke after that, and it kind of just stuck anyway. Even now I knew that these strange lights were not Dad's fault, but I couldn't stop myself from saying it.

My sister couldn't see through my lie, like always, and thought that I was being serious. "How is it his fault? He never even comes into my room, anyways!" I could hear the panic in her voice. She had no explanation and was picturing the worst. "Then maybe it was the centipede's fault." Pointing at the living centipede, like it was an everyday manner.

"What?! How is that thing still alive!?" Aria jumped back, falling off her bed. "He's not a thing, Aria." I sighed tiredly. 'after this I'm going to bed.' I thought to myself. "Well said, ojo-chan." A deep and seemingly amused male voice spoke out. That was weird. Aria and me are the only one's home and neither of us has a deep raspy voice like that. I quickly located the source of the voice. The centipede.

"Did it just talk? No way! That's impossible!" There have been stranger things, I suppose, though most of them only happen in fiction. "Aria." I let out a warning tone, stop calling him 'it'.

"That's it this must be a dream! A delusion of grandeur! The effect of some drug. There is no way that this is real." She exclaimed then suddenly, she let out a burst of uncontrollable laughter before fainting. She couldn't handle the pressure of the impossible. How normal of her.

I drew out another yawn before returning my gaze to the centipede. "Now, care to explain who you are centipede-san?" The centipede had grown since it first spoke and strangely enough he was still growing.

No. It was more like he vibrating with raw power and with each passing second he grew larger and his strange power got stronger. There was a rainbow of different colors surrounded him and I had noticed that the miniature lightning bolts had started to grow too. By now, the lightning bolts had surpassed twice my size and I was sure that if I were to be stricken by one of them, I would pass out. No questions asked.

"I have no reason to explain myself to a human girl." He spoke again, in such a condescending and belittling tone. "Ara, I see. But if I don't know why you are here or whom you are, then I might say or do something that you could consider rude. I would hate to disrespect you, if it can be avoided." I added in the last part just for the sake of it, a reason to keep him talking.

"That is of no consequence." No bite. And here I had pegged him for the arrogant type. I thought that he would spill out everything about himself just to make his own self worth seem more relevent. I could feel his now huge bug eyes staring down at me; sizing me up. "I can't just let you go free. You tried to kill me after all."

I didn't like where this was going and by instinct I took two steps backwards and away from the talking centipede. "Isn't that a bit harsh? I mean we thought you were just a normal centipede. If you where to see a tiny bug crawling around on your walls, I'm sure your first instinct would be to kill it too. Or am I wrong, centipede-san?"

The "-san" thing was starting to feel a bit more natural to me at this point in the conversation. The only reason I had only used Japanese's honorifics in the first place was because the centipede had used the term 'ojo-chan' when it first spoke. That and I thought '-san' sounded more respectful than 'Mr.'. My own mother language, felt foreign on my tongue. There were a hundred other languages that I felt more comfortable with, Japanese just happened to be one of them.

The centipede let out a strange noise, which I guessed was laughter. "I knew I liked you for a reason, kekakfukekufa!" It put me off, the weird sounding laugh. "To show my fondness of you, I'll grant you any wish you desire. But after I grant your wish, I'll punish you for hitting me with that book."

Punishment? He's still going on about that? "Eh… What about Aria, she's the one who wanted you dead, and she called you an 'it' too." To hell with kicking and screaming, if I was going down, I planned on at least dragging Aria down with me. "Of course, I can't let her go without punishment."

"Then send me to an anime world. I don't care which one, as long as I know it." I couldn't stop the sheepish grin from forming on my face. What every fan dreamed of, I wanted to experience. It didn't matter if I would regret this decision later, a thing I knew that was bound to happen.

I would be leaving everything that I knew to chance- that is to say, leaving everything behind. I couldn't even decide which anime world I wanted to go into. I dreamed about all of them. One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, Detective Conan, Pokémon, Death Note, Toriko, Tokyo Mew Mew, Sailor moon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Hunter Hunter, the list goes on forever. Even some Disney shows have made the list.

"Oh, ojo-chan, are you sure that's what you want? You can't take it back you know," He said slyly. "Even if I regret it later, I won't change my mind now. If I passed up on my dream right now, I'll always regret it."

"Well said, ojo-chan," the centipede circled around me, like a predator and its prey, "I would say that this was going to be painless, but that would be a lie."

"Wha-" the centipede wrapped completely around me, blocking out the light and my air. That pervert! He's squishing me! I felt like I was going to suffocate. Like a fire was coursing through my veins.

Then all at once, a bright white filled my vision and my blood turned cold. I wanted to scream, but couldn't find the strength. My entire body was in complete agony, I wonder is this what death feels like…

Then the light vanished, leaving me in the oblivion of darkness.

FWG: I got this story idea when I found a real centipede on my wall after a shower… I really did freak out. In the end I ended up sleeping on the couch in my living room.

Aria: What about me? You completely forgot about me didn't you!

FWG: Ah, sorry about that. Maybe next chapter…

Aria: Don't fall asleep on me. Yuri!

Yuri: Hmm, oh Sis… * yawns * Did you want something?