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Rin was staring at a piece of cake on the table, wondering if she'd be able to taste it even though she was in a game, when something suddenly split across the sky. She looked up at it, confused, her hand tightening around Yuki's. She wasn't sure what was going on, and in the end simply squeezed her eyes shut. A moment later, when she opened them, she was standing in some old building that looked like it'd burned down sometime in the past. When Yuki growled, her head turned and she stared up at him, eyes widening slightly as she saw he was back to normal. Then she glanced over towards Eijii and Emiko, suddenly noticing the two of them. Not even thinking, she opened her mouth and yelled at Eijii. "What are you doing?! Leave that girl alone!" To Rin, it appeared that he was just using that girl for... fun, while he thought of a way to get her away from Yuki. Then she suddenly remembered Eijii's power and slipped around behind Yuki, using him as a sheild.

Emiko had been trying to calm down at least, and was heading towards the couch again with Eijii, when the scene around them began to melt and fade. She blinked rapidly several times, as if thinking her eyes were messing up or something. And then, everything was gone, replaced by a creepy old building. She inched a little closer to Eijii, then looked up and realized there was another couple there. She recognized them quickly as the ones from the beach. When the violet haired girl yelled at Eijii about Emiko, the girl's eyes widened, and she wordlessly shook her head. Leave her alone? She didn't... want to be left alone. But, she couldn't find any words either, too lost in confusion.

Eddie wandered into the computer room, looking around with a slightly impressed expression upon his face. Sam looked up from her "work" and smirked at him, lifting a hand to wave him over. "C'mere, little ghostie," she grinnned. Eddie blinked, surprised, but wandered towards her anyway. Sam jumped up from her seat and grabbed Eddie's wrist, leading him around to the opposite end from Rin, Yuki, Emiko, and Eijii. "Why not play a virtual reality game?" she grinned. "Those four are having tons of fun. It'll take your mind off of whatever's bothering you too."

Eddie stared at her for a second or two, looking uncertain. How did she know he was trouble? ...lucky guess. He sighed but gave in, moving around and sitting down on the chair, settling himself back. Sam happily stuffed the helmet onto his head, tapped a few buttons on the green, and watched Eddie's transparent body go limp.

Meanwhile, Eddie suddenly found himself standing outside two large double doors. He blinked, extremely lost, and then carefully pushed them open and peeked inside. He found himself in an overly fancy room, large, filled with tables loaded with sweets and drinks, around which sat groups of people. He entered the room slowly, suddenly realizing he himself was wearing something that resembled a suit, but not quite. He wasn't wearing a tie, and he didn't have a jacket either. Mainly just the white button up shirt and black loose pants. He stopped just in front of the doors, staring around blankly. His eyes settled upon a male. Or at least, Eddie thought he was male. He almost seemed too... pretty to be a male. Before he knew what he was doing, Eddie was moving towards him, suddenly realizing and stopping just five feet away. Wh-what am I doing?
[I thought she was going to look like a guy..?]

After Sam finished up with her latest plan, which was having the two ghosts meet, she returned to her computer. As soon as she sat down, a small alarm began going off. Her eyes widened and she turned, sitting straight in her chair and turning to face the computer, rather than slouching lazily back. Instead of one hand, she now had both on the keyboard, fingers flying almost too rapidly to see. She lifted her left hand once, to tap a couple buttons on the various monitors attached to her computer. Now one showed the ghosts, who appeared to be fine, while another showed the group of four, and a third showed what she'd been working on a moment before. It, however, had been put on hold. Somethingw as infecting her game, and she'd be damned if she'd let it ruin anything or put anyone in danger!

Rin eyed Eijii angrily, though she felt a small flicker of uncertainty. From watching the girl, she didn't seem to be putting up any struggle, and she was even holding onto Eijii's hand. It was hard for her to image anyone liking a guy like him though. The kind who'd announce he was after Rin, then kiss a girl as she walked by, like he'd done in the library. From behind Yuki, Rin shook her head, eyes still narrowed angrily. Though, again that was that tug of uncertainty as she heard the guilt in his voice. She would've yelled at him for saying her name, but she kept quiet about that, instead commenting about his question. "We came to play a game," she replied shortly. "That's all."

Emiko watched it all quietly, feeling both the others looking at her, trying to see if she was under whatever spell it was that Eijii could apparently use. Come to think of it, she thought he had used it a couple times, making her say things she'd have preferred not to say. But, old habits die hard, right? And he hadn't done it in quite a while. She felt his grip go limp for a moment, and squeezed it gently, her eyes still locked upon the two others. She didn't understand the details of what had happened, but she knew that Eijii had been sent to bring back Rin. Of course that'd cause hard feelings between him and that other guy. Glancing around uncertainly, Emiko swallowed nervously and dared to speak up. "I-I don't have a boyfriend somewhere," she said quietly, a blush upon her face and her voice near a whisper. "An-and he's not doing anything wrong. So please, d-don't be mad at him..."

Eddie was slightly surprised to see the guy actually wave him over, and even more surprised that he actually did move towards him again. He stood in front of the couch, staring down at the male for a couple seconds, studying the strangely girlish face, before snapping out of it and nodding his head. "Uh, no... I don't know how I ended up in this game." That was true. Sam hadn't given him much a choice, and had just shoved him into the chair. "But, I'm Eddie." He held out his hand for a handshake.

It was an hour or two before Rorou ran out of quarters. She was gasping by then. She was definatly feeling more than a little tired. She stumbled her way out of the arcade. Maybe she could find something interesting somewhere...

Yuki was wondering about a lot of things right now, but more than anything unsure about what to say to Eijii. Pft! Like he'd ever trust someone like him, he thought as his eyes narrowed slightly wondering if there was still something up his sleeve. His thoughts were taken from him again though when he realized that they were once again being talked to by Sam. Her voice circled around him and he lightly frowned, more mad at the fact that he had to talk to Eijii in his normal body instead of being mad at her for the glitch. Wasn't really her fault anyway, however he saw everything go a little hazy and cloudy around him. Not very longer than seconds later his eyes opened up with a slight groan coming from him. He pulled himself upwards moments later as he felt his previously numb and limp body spring back into feeling. He stirred with ease as he glanced around, his eyes going to Sam first and then to Eijii. "We'll be back soon, promise, it was fun before all of that" he reasured to Sam as he quickly sprang from his seat and picked Rin straight up and rushed out. No way that he was going to chance being around Eijii and Emiko for a moment longer, besides he wanted to celebrate being engaged. Before he left he grinned up at Sam "We're on the campus dorms if you want to see us later, we could use some friend that isn't...creepy.." he said as he glanced around to Eijii. He then just walked out calmly with Rin, hearing Eijii get up just as he did so.

Eijii blinked when he heard Sam's voice and slowly nodded his head to her, though that only lasted seconds before his own head in real life was trying to nod to her. He opened his eyes making a slight gasp of a kid who just woke up in math class. He sat up, vaguly seeing the door open with someone walking through and noticed that Rin and Yuki weren't there anymore. He almost wondered if they had never actually been there, but no, he knew the truth, he had no such luck. He sat up as he lightly rubbed at the side of his head and glanced over at Emiko for a moment before stiffling a yawn. Finally looking up to Sam "I wish that wouldn't have happened..." he admited to her but gave her a small smirk as his way of not blaming her for it. He stood up and streatched as he walked over to Emiko's chair waiting for her to wake up fully and rubbed Kumori's belly as he pet him with a grin.

Jodie just shrugged her shoulders "Does it really matter? I mean we're in a game after all" she said though inside she was grinning. It was intresting to see how this guy reacted, but she would probably feel bad if she went over board. He seemed really nice actually, so she'd just try her best to not freak him out, she wasn't like that in the real world anyway. "Anyway, how old are you? Your hair's pretty intresting" she admitted, normally reaching for it, but now she would stay just perfectly still and calm so she didn't mess with him. She crossed her legs under her as she leaned against the couch and grinned boyishly at him.

[JEEZ. What a bunch of losers D< Why does no one come here?! They don't want to the day using the computer? D; xD Wow <333 Look at all of our writting, makes me feel impressive ;D <3]

Jodie's eyes widened suddenly when she felt the same sort of melting thing happen that just had happened to the others. It only lasted for about a minute, but she fully turned back to her girly form, in the same clothing and everything. She made a surprised and scared face instantly before things quickly melted back to reality. Or virtual reality. "Ah...ha-ha..." she said a little nervous as she looked at him. "Did you...see all that?" she questioned him as she frowned, her hands lightly on hips...but they could be going to her pockets in a more manily attempt to be a uh...man.

She sighed, hanging her head slightly, oh well it was probably best anyway, Eddie would be mad if he found out when they got out that she was really a girl. She kind of wanted to see what else they could do in virtual reality though, she hadn't explored much to be honest. "Er...Sam...everything alright?" Jodie lightly called up, she new Sam pretty well, they were friends enough just because Jodie showed up a lot.

Ito stifled a yawn as he started walking into the computer room. His wings were twitching lightly, indicating he was either nervous or excited. For him, it was the latter. He was excited because he would get to see Sam again. "Sam?" He called out lightly, letting his calm and gentle voice ring out through the room. As he looked around, he noticed a small group of people sitting in chairs, looking lifeless, wearing strange helmets on their heads. Then he noticed Sam sitting at a desk with a few monitors. "There you are Rose..." He said softly, occupying the seat by her. "Are these friends of your's?" He asked curiously, planting a small kiss on her cheek.

Ito smiled lightly as Sam explained everything. "So they were brought back to life? My how... Interesting..." He said quietly. "So you're trying to set them up on a date? Aren't you a little Miss Matchmaker." He said with a playful grin. "So... Your lair? My how... Frightful... A vampire doesn't live in a castle or a mansion anymore... Standards have dropped for the poor Clan Nosferatu... But then again... This would be considered ritzy for this era huh?" He asked with a smile, knowing Sam was most likely happy here. After all, she was a hacker.