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Futaba drew a heavy sigh as she felt the sudden tiredness over her body. She was almost burned out, given the sudden power she gained on the battle field also resulting strain of her energy to unleash it. Futaba went to the nearby wall and lean her back on it, just to lessen her legs had to carry on the weight. Futaba nodded at Jalie who thanked her and she listened to Jonathan's story eagerly.

"You know, sometimes fate has been playing with us rudely." She grieved over Aurora, as Jonathan said that voluntarily annihilate herself to save the man she loved. It was nearly the same case like Futaba's mother, whom taking the south route to kill herself in order to protect her daughter. "I know I might be not good at giving motivation but, just like my mother, I believe Aurora will always be with you, on your heart, when you always think about her. And about the attack, it's okay for me, though I'm not lying that I also feel scared if you would turned out to be a monster. I just.... don't want to kill anybody." Futaba took a deep breath.

She gazed upon Jonathan when the blue things popped out of nowhere and like pulled into him. His armor and weapon also developed into a better shape than before, after he got the power. "As for now, my scanning abilities could be stretch out to 500m in circle, I'm on my cooling down state. I need some time to gain my power back so I could reach 2km at my territory to be read at." Futaba nodded along when Jonathan said that she might understand about the modern installment around the hospital more than he did.

She then moved on to listen to Camry's explanation about the God which could be experimented about trapping mortals to his kind of universe. "I don't like the idea to fight each other to survive...." Futaba scratched her hair to back. "Just like Jonathan said, we have to find more clues for this good sandman." Futaba closed her sentences.


Futaba looked at Jonathan that decided to ravel out the adventure by himself. "Well, be careful out there. And you should have this. This is like a communication device. I made this on my own. Probably that you find something on your way that might benefit us too." Futaba rushed over to Jonathan before he took his day and handed out a badge. It worked with the signal, much like a set of walkie-talkies. It has been modified so that they can communicate at a distance.

"And I'll be looking for some stuffs, maybe battery or medics that installed in this hospital." Futaba looked over to Jalie, Ren, Azumi, Ashley and Camry. "Jalie, or Ms. Azumi, both of you can call me if we need to go or if there is something happens. I will be right back." Futaba smiled at them. At that time, Futaba chose to have some kind of tour of the hospital, looking for anything she could loot or gain.

Sirius stoped calling out. “Is there no one here? I heard sounds… I did get hit very hard and the instantaneous teleportation really does nothing for one’s senses. As lovely and eerie as this place is, I can’t help but feel off. Almost like this is one giant game, or a maze.”

Sirius’s brow furrowed as a sudden thought struck him. “Wait a minute if I can’t go home… Does that mean I can not summon my grimoires….?” Sirius’s eyes widened at the possibility.

Sirius closed his eyes, and nothing appeared. He tried again causing a small void to open. Nothing came through as the void closed.

“Oh, no, no! Think Sirius, think okay, so you’re in another reality. No way home, no grimoires…. At least I have my natural magical affiliation. The Grimoires are my amplifier’s, the tools I have relied on for centuries…” Sirius moved forward talking to himself.

“You don’t know what you are currently facing. You have no idea what’s going on. You are just here… uninformed, under powered, and lost. Lovely, just lovely. “ Sirius stoped moving, his panic slowly subsiding. He took a deep breath. “I need information. The places to start books, museum’s, the internet, archive’s, lores.” Sirius’s heart pounded. He could hear the echo. The amount of progress he made forward nearly lost to his will to turn around.

Sirius inhaled and exhaled. His eyes lingered on the buildings. “Maybe, I should enter one of these houses, or shops. They might have something.”

“Captain, captain,” A familiar voice called out to Sirius.

Sirius whipped around as he heard the title. He narrowed his eyes seeing nothing there.

“Captain,”Sirius heard it again. “Hey captain,” A pale blue apparition of Sirius’s first mate appeared. “Are you really going to leave this set back get to you. You’re the sinner who took on a hoard of Angels.”

Sirius glanced down. His eye lids half way covering his eyes. “At the cost of my crew, at the cost of my ship,” he spoke softly.

“We chose it captain, it was extermination day. It didn’t matter how fast we ran. Our ship was the only one that stood a chance. We gave the others a chance to flee. You told us how it was captain. Tilted your hat said Gentlemen and ladies it was truly a pleasure. You told us we could jump, told the water dwellers, they could flee. We chose to stay.” The apparition folded his arms. “You aren’t the captain, I know he isn’t this whiny.”

Sirius snapped. “You threw me over Board! I was suppose to go down with everyone!”

The first mate tilted his head. “Captain we always knew one day we would die on the red sea’s. So, one night we talked about what we would do. What was worth saving. We started planning. The thing that was worth the most to every one there was you. The man who gave us a place to call home. The man who pretended he was the nastiest thing on the red sea’s. Sure we had to give you our souls. You never took advantage. You never required more than what we were willing to give. You dealt with traitors the way you were supposed to.”

Sirius’s human form faded away. He Stormed over to his first mate with narrowed eyes. His enraged breath slightly visible. Suddenly various items floated and then slammed back down. “It was my choice! It was suppose to be my choice! You took that away from me!”

“Captain You took in the worst of us, the powerless, you gave them power. Stop crying, stop panicking and start plundering.” The apparition dissipated fading into Sirius’s chest.

A few tears slipped out as Sirius fell to his knees in the middle of the street. “I don’t think, I can ever be that captain again. Over time I become unrecognizable to myself.” He flopped to his bum, and wrapped his arms around his knees. Sirius buried his head. “Wait, did a soul literally give itself a form?” His sadness, and rage forgotten for a moment. “I need a few minutes, and then I will start looking for answers.”

(( Interesting lore about Sirius there, Sincerity. ))

Jonathan was a bit surprised at Futaba's mention about the death of her own mother, somewhat similar to Jonathan's circumstances with losing Aurora. Though Futaba did say that she isn't good at pep talks, the fact that she's trying, and not to mention share similarities between them, was more than enough to make him happy.

"Thanks, Futaba...it still really means a lot what you said...and, again, I'm really sorry about all of that... I definitely won't succumb to that ever again." said Jonathan as he then listens to Futaba again about her abilities "500m to 2km at peak. Good to know, and still that's quite impressive. I look forward to your support, you definitely remind me of a few friends that specialize in supporting the party...although no one has interesting abilities like yours..."

Then Futaba offers Jonathan a cute badge that also works as a walkie-talkie...though if she said that, such a word is alien to him, but he'll quickly get the message on what it does...

"This is rather cute and neat. Thanks. Although I can make it a bit better...give me one second..." said Jonathan

Jonathan concentrates calmly, his blue aura appears once again. The badges float a bit, soon surrounded by a blue bubble as he infuses each one with magic to not only boost communication range, but it'll also now work without the need of electricity or radio waves, replacing it with magical pulses that specializes in communication.

"There we go, I infuse some magic into these devices to boost communication range, and it'll work without needs like electricity or something. It'll definitely be akin to telepathy with this, so we'll definitely keep in touch." said Jonathan as he then gets going "I'll be back in a few hours. I'll be sure to report everything I've seen and map out the area of what I explore when I get back."

And thus Jonathan then leaves the safety of the hospital to go gather information, materials, and people shall he find others out there. His first point of interest is finding a messy abandoned hardware store that will have all sorts of materials that he can use in his cauldron synthesis...it's definitely a treasure trove with him...

"Oh wow, look at all the stuff here. Sure, there's no food from what I'm seeing, but all of these metals, tools, and other things are going to be helpful with my cauldron synthesis to make a lot of cool things. Might as well gather what I can." said Jonathan

Jonathan would then gather a lot of stuff spilled all over the place and put it all in his magical carrying bag that can easily store all of what he was able to gather and find. It would take him at least 40 minutes before being done and decided to move on with his exploration. Naturally, while he moves around, he makes a map of what he finds and makes many notes of the things he has seen.

Camry heard the thought of both a good and bad sandman and really hoped that was true. He really didn't want to have to deal with his fear, and definitely didn't want anyone to have to suffer through that. He shoock his head, noting that he was getting soft. He decided to go to an spare room and close the door. He reached out to the old gods, asking for potions and weapons that could help him and these other people. A table appeared holding all sorts of potions: ones of healing, shrinking and growing to enormous sizes, and one that turned the user to a gaseous state. He also realised he now had his golden lasso, his diamond bullets, and his rifle slung across his back. He also noted a small red bottle that he had never seen before. He picked it up, holding it up to further investigate it, when he realized it was a posion. He was shocked as why the gods would send this. He sighed, survival of the fittest was not an option here. He slipped the others in his jacket but smashed the posion on the table...causing it to explode. He winced, "I hope no one heard that..." He thought.

(OOc Thanks Forever. )

Sirius lifted his head and sighed. “For the longest time I was the man who clung to immortality.” A slow movement caught his attention. His eyes widened. A person, a person, he mentally exclaimed.
He jumped up as his tail flipped up with exuberance.

Sirius winced and forcefully closed his tail. He placed a hand over the back of it. It appears human. Did it notice??? Am I noticeable. He seems distracted. Sirius transformed into a human, and slowly made his way over to the welcome sight.

When he reached a suitable distance Sirius spoke. “Hello, sorry to distract you, my name is Sirius. I appear lost and know nothing. Does this place have a name? Is it a dream? Am I dead? Did some sort of vile entity, or a king summon people here? Is there peril? Most importantly is there history and lore? Does this place have cycles of the day and night?”

He did not take a breath as everything rushed out. Sirius panted, finally calming down. He stepped back horrified at the out pouring of his own questions. He raised a hand and tapped his forehead.

“Forgive me for my rudeness, you see I was summoned from the afterlife to save earth once again. At the end of the fight. I just ended up here, almost like a delusion, I can’t seem to find my way back. If it helps you are the first alive thing I saw.”

Jonathan personally didn't expect to find someone else out there, even though Jalie did say that she still did detect few more people. When Sirius called out to him, Jonathan was distracted, thinking about other things, until he came along which scared him a bit.

"Gah! What the?! Oh...hi...I didn't think I would find someone else out here..." said Jonathan as he heard Sirius' introduction and questions " Pleasure, Sirius. The name is Jonathan. Also slow down and relax a bit...you're safe...for now at least... Anyway, we don't really know what this place is, but it's safe to assume that this is a closed world that we're all teleported into by some powerful force or god...we don't really know too much yet as me and other people try to find a way to get ourselves back home... And, no, you and I aren't dreaming...as much as we want to think that this isn't reality, unfortunately it is for all of us who got transported here... Indeed, this closed world here is perilous, at least not during the day...but once it's nighttime is when the sandman comes out and tries to assault us...it'll probably be within your best interest if you make your way over to the hospital several blocks down in that direction over there where we set up our base... As for me, I'm out here gathering materials and stuff to create some helpful tools later before the next night cycle...of which we have no idea when that's going to happen since day and night doesn't follow a natural cycle here... Also, you're asking about information and lore about this place? Well, we did find a journal about an old man who was trying to escape this place along with a few others, but apparently he also turned into a sandman...at least a good one from what we deduced right now... We're trying to look for him to see if he can help us get us back to our own worlds...while it's not my highest priority at the moment, finding him would be a massive boon for all of us..."

Jonathan catches a bit of his breath after explaining all of that to Sirius, and he wasn't done just yet as he said something that surprises him.

"You were...summoned from the afterlife...? Well, we aren't sure what this world is, but it's definitely not Earth. Everyone who gets teleported here seems to get snatched up during whatever bad thing that has happened to them...either by dreams, or fighting, like what happened to you... Well, that's everything I know at the moment...any more questions...? If not, I recommend you go to the hospital I told you about over in that general direction over there were the others are, you'll easily find it if you see tall walls surrounding it. As for me, I'm still looking for more things and mapping out the area before heading back, so I can't guide you right now...unless if you're willing to come with me, I don't mind..." said Jonathan

"Huh." She thinks about what Camry said and then what Ren said. "Well, I think they're both possibilities, we shouldn't rule any of them out yet. Hell, they might even both be true in some way."

Jalie stays silent as she listens to the people talking around her. "Okay Futaba." Jalie nods at Futaba and watches her and Jonathan leave. "I think I'm gonna go find the other person.." She leaves the building and wanders in the direction of Sirius. Her ears are perked up and she listens intently as she walks.

Jonathan already found them. She stops before reaching Sirius and turns back to the hospital when she hears something explode. Jalie runs back. "Is everyone okay?" She says as she enters the hospital.

Sirius placed one arm across his middle and rested his other elbow on top. His hand rubbed under his chin. “It’s one of those with a twist. There is always a twist. I can’t in good conscience come along with you. I would only slow you down. The time limit you have is important. I have already unjustifiably impeded your progress. I also can’t leave you with out aid.” He released his pose.

Sirius closed his eyes and moved his hands. “Excuse me this will only take a moment. I’m a bit out of practice.” Within a few seconds, and a brilliant flash of purple light, two ethereal crow’s stood on Sirius’s shoulder’s. Both of them donning dark purple and black feathers. The ethereal birds took flight.

Sirius tilted his head up watching them. “They use to be yellow.” He turned his attention to Jonathan. “They will alert you if they spot anything useful, or threatening. If you happen to be out longer than you should be. If it finds you, they will collide, and create a large flash of light. Now due to the difference in energy. Who knows what will happen. I shall be going now. If you would rather not have the birds it’s fine.” Sirius turned to leave.



(( OOc I’m thinking of making the birds that Sirius leaves with the other characters controllable by that character. Like a helpful temporary fairy. The birds would behave how that character perceives them. if that makes sense. If not that’s fine.))

(( Well, as long as it doesn't really threaten my character, then that's fine. I don't mind doing the extra work in controlling this crow. ))

Sirius' behavior was a little bit weird with Jonathan, ultimately he doesn't want to come with him because he would've slowed him down while he's out looking for stuff, but will still leave him with something to help him...a magic familiar that Sirius summoned in a brilliant flash of light that Jonathan had to shield his eyes... Once the crow flew to Jonathan's shoulder, Sirius then begins to leave him.

"Uhhhhh...are you sure about this...?" asked Jonathan, but it's unlikely that what he can say or do would change his mind "Well...he's gone... *Sigh*...Well it's ultimately his choice...something tells me he'll do just fine on his own though..."

Jonathan the looks at his crow partner, behaving like a normal crow, still perched on his shoulder.

"Alright then my little new friend, back to the adventuring." said Jonathan

Jonathan then resumes his adventure of finding more stuff, information, and mapping out the area once more. He'll eventually turn back close to another hour.

[OOC: Phew, y'all on fire! I got a lot to catch up on, so apologies in advance if I miss anyone or anything!]

So while the idea of barricading the ground floor as much as possible was a good idea, Ashley didn't entirely take into account whether or not there'd be enough resources. Because that was a lot of windows and doors to cover. At the very least, they could just close the blinds in each room and wedge chairs under the handles. But as far as the front door and the larger windows? That would be too time consuming. "Well, I didn't exactly take into account the amount of resources that we would need to barricade every window and door down on the ground floor. Maybe fortifying one of the upper floors may be the better solution?" She responded, scratching her chin whilst resting her arms on top of the large belly.

Just then, a young woman would enter the hospital, introducing herself. Jalie. "Ashley. Nice to meet you as well." She shook the young woman's hand with a firm grip.

And like Jonathan, Jalie may have had access to the mystical arts, as she was able to sense the unborn baby inside Ashley's belly. "First time for everything, dear." She responded.

The expectant mother then proceeded to look towards the abundance of food and drinks. While she was hungry, Ashley wasn't sure of where to start. When she was looking to grab one of the smaller items, currently not all that hungry, they would soon be joined by additional company. Up next was Futuba. Mmm, given the attire, she must've been the heavy gaming type. At least from Ashley's own perspective. She would then grab one of the basic items, namely a Tuna Sandwich since it was available. She didn't need anything too fancy. To follow up though, just a cup of water since sugary drinks often tended to give her stomachaches, which really sucked during the later stage of pregnancy. Even worse, some foods and drinks made her gassy. Which currently was less then ideal.

Futuba then proceeded to ask how far along she was in her pregnancy. By this point, she was pretty much done with her sandwich and proceeded to take a big gulp from the cup of water, then wiping her mouth with a paper towel prior to answering. "Like nine months. I'm due in like a week unless the baby wants to be stubborn about staying in my tummy." She replied as she placed her hand on her back. "And I'm afraid I can't do much in a fight, as you're not wrong, being heavily pregnant does hold me back. All I can do is patch you up if you get hurt, depending on the severity, but going into a fight is probably the worst idea for me right now."

Great...more company. At this point, Ashley did want to groan, but that could easily be brushed off as pregnancy fatigue. Yes, it was taking its toll on her at this stage, but until she knew she was safe, resting was kinda out of the question. She listened as everyone present was trying to figure things out, from finding out where others were, how to deal with the Sandman, his origins, who he could actually be...Honestly there was just too much for Ashley to keep track of. So she just kinda left everyone to their own devices, then she was approached by a four-tailed fox woman, the tails wagging. The other woman proceeded to recommend that Ashley refrain from fighting. "Yeah, I know, I don't plan on fighting, only providing aid to those who are hurt since that's what I'm good at."

The woman then proceeded to introduce herself as Azumi, and stating that she was here with her adoptive son, Ren. Then she offered tips on how to best prepare for motherhood. Since Ashley had very little experience with children outside of treating them and loading them into ambulances in the aftermath of car crashes, maybe some tips would go a long way for her. "Sure. Since I'm not the best with children, I guess a few tips could go a long way."

Before that could start, Jonathan had stepped in to get the other women to settle down. While it was nice to know that they were concerned for her well-being, he did remind them not to be overbearing. And that it was probably best that her baby wasn't born in the current world they were in. Honestly, she'd prefer that too and was low-key hoping that her baby would stubborn about staying in her tummy, at least until she got back to Earth. Unfortunately, frozen in time and in her pregnant state wasn't gonna be stopping the less-then-savory symptoms of late stage pregnancy. But hey, at least those baby kicks were cute.

Now onto the next move. Jonathan was planning on venturing back out, while Futuba was planning to scan the area for others seeking refuge. "Well, I should probably go find a place to relax. And for any newcomers, send them my way and I'll check for injuries and treat hem accordingly."

A few moments later, a few people had left. Then there was an explosion, followed by Jalie returning. "Mmm, yeah, I'm okay. Just kinda...dealing with a stomachache and feeling a little..." she hesitated. "Gassy." She said as she started blushing. "Who knew growing another human being would be such hard work." She sighed.

((OOC: Alright, wrote out everything and responded to as much as I could without missing anyone. And let's go from there. I'll try not to have my posts so spread out after this one barring unusual circumstances of course.))

((OOC: I just decided to put weapons and potions very vague so you can get what best suits your characters. Hope that's ok!))
Camry woke up suddenly, not realizing he had fallen asleep. He stood up and walked out, but froze when he realized that he had another posion in his jacket. "The gods really want me to use this.." He thought. He thought about the fight that would eventually come with the sandman and the team he had to work with. "Hey guys, I'm going to clear the food table for a second. And uh, take a look at the table when you have a chance." Then, he reached out to the gods once again, making more healing potions and weapons that would best suit his companions. When the table was full, he suddenly felt dizzy and collapsed on the ground. " That may have been to much" he thought as struggled to stand.

Jalie nods and smiles at Ashley's response. "I guess so."


"Oh good, it's alright. I'm glad you're okay though." Jalie pats Ashley's arm and looks around the reception area of the hospital. Nothing seems damaged..

Jalie makes her way toward the room Camry went to. She knocks on the door, not wanting to intrude. "Camry? Are you okay?" She waits outside the door for a response.

While doing this she takes note of Sirius seeming to get farther from them while Jonathan seems to get a bit closer again. Oddly, there's an odd presence with Jonathan. It's smaller, and not human. Well then, guess he got a pet? She shrugs it off for now and turns her attention back to Camry on the other side of the door.

Camry heard jalie outside, but he was so tired that he could only groan. He tried to communicate with her like when they first met. "Jalie, help, I can't move..." He thought.

Sirius realized he made a couple of wrong turns before finding the hospital. He stood outside the building glaring at it, before entering. He slowly opened the door and poked his head in. "Hello," he called out softly. "I was told to come here. I got lost for several minutes."







((No harm. Just something that's meant to be vaguely helpful.))

For about a quiet time to take some tour on the hospital, Futaba looked around her surroundings. Dirty tiles, broken cabinets and rusted metal bed frames were displayed in front of her. Even without all these things, hospitals are pretty creepy to begin with. Maybe because hospitals are associated with illness and death, as well as being places that should be clean. Futaba walked to a room which look like the doctor's room, or some kind of a lab. She moved closer to see if there would be anything she could build of it. She gushed over the recycle item and found some good circuit boards to be got from routers, switches, modems. There were also an abandoned computers. Futaba took out some screws from her backpack and have her focus on the computer. She then open the side of the computer case and unscrew them with a screwdriver. She also took out her bolt cutter to cut the wires. She pulled out the computer's component and took the wire to direct it to her own hand computer. "Just a bit..." Futaba wiped out the sweat on her forehead with the back of her sleeve and now connect the computers. The data on the old computer has transferred to her Ipad. There were also some data of the illness, patient, survivors and the death of the current hospital they are resting. She scrolled down and find an interesting picture of a patient that look like the girl from the sandman's journal picture. Futaba saved them and think that the data might be benefit them later.

Just at the time she was about to look for more stuff about the metals and power supply, an explosion could be heard to the other room across the wall. Surprised, Futaba quickly plug off her Ipad and rushed toward where everyone had stand by. "What was happening?!" Futaba asked Jalie and Ashley if the explosion came from them. One person is missing! Futaba thought. It was the man whom saying about the God of dreams. Where was he then?

Meanwhile, another person popped in, he said that he got lost before found their place, Futaba changed to a guarding state. "Did you also wake up to this dream?" She asked to Sirius. Wake up to a dream it sound so strange in every way. Although it was the fact this all a dream universe they got in.

Jalie waited a bit, feeling an odd little nudge in her own mind. What in the world? "Um, Camry... I'm gonna come in." She waited before opening the door and walking in. Jalie's eyes immediately go to Camry who is laying on the ground. She quickly kneels by him. "Oh my god, are you okay?" Wait, could that feeling have been Camry trying to talk to me? I don't want to invade his privacy though... I guess.. it's worth a shot... Jalie slips into Camry's mind and waits for a response from him.

Jalie gives a small wave in the newcomer's direction. She decided she'd introduce herself later. She needed to make sure Camry was okay first.

"I'm not sure." Jalie shakes her head. "I was outside when I heard it and I just came back in a little bit ago."

"Well, yes. It's a complicated and arduous explanation." He noticed her defensiveness and slight distress. "Was I not supposed to come here? I can wait outside if you like. The man named Jonathan directed me here. Something seemed to of happened. I'm afraid my senses aren't up to par yet."

Sirius's eyes glanced around the reception. They landed on Ashley, and he then quickly turned his gaze away. I'm going to protect this person and her little one, Sirius thought.

"Can I stay, please? I mean I wouldn't have been much help to him. I don't take up much room. I'm useful. I know magic, herbs, potions. I like being around people."

Jonathan's next point of interest is finding a library amongst the buildings, and like every other building the inside is pretty abandoned and unkept. Still Jonathan enters to find any and all information that could help them escape this world...while also looking to see if he could find more alchemy recipe books to learn new stuff to make with the stuff he has... What he managed to find was very few books of the things he looked for, and there were hundreds of books in there that he was able to quickly skim through.

"That took a lot of time, but...I did manage to find a few more journals and a few more alchemy recipe books to learn new stuff that can help us out... I guess that's all I can find here, and really that's all I should be able to search for the time being, so I should head on back." said Jonathan

But before doing so, once he exited the library, Jonathan decided to get an eagle's eye view of the city.

"You might want to take to the skies for a bit, my friend. I'm going to summon a very tall ice pillar to act as a perch to see what else I can see." said Jonathan

The crow does just that, he flew off his shoulder as Jonathan once again morphs his regular clothing into his magic armor again. Brandishing his magic runesword out of his shield, Jonathan plants the sword point on the ground as then a very tall ice pillar quickly forms and set him up high into the sky. He has a perfect view of the whole city, and whatever geographic terrain he could find, like mountains, grasslands, forests, etc. The crow soon returns and perch on his armor's shoulder blades again.

"You really are a smart crow, aren't you?" said Jonathan with a smile as he then looks around all the buildings and geographic terrain "Hmm...well the city is decently large, and the architecture is what I'm somewhat used to...but something about these buildings is rather more...futuristic than what I've seen in my world... I don't see any tall buildings like my ice pillar here..." said Jonathan as he then notices something rather odd and interesting farther ahead "Hey now, what's that ramp thing over there? Let's check it out real quick before heading on back."

Jonathan then slowly let the ice pillar sink into the ground again as he makes his way towards a large ramp that leads to an underground shelter. At the bottom, he was stopped by a massive metal gate.

"Well, well, now...this must be some sort of underground shelter..." said Jonathan as he gets closer to examine the super thick metal gate blocking the way, knocking on it lightly "Not even a single sound...this must be an incredibly thick metal gate... Hmm...I doubt even my powers will be able to break through something so super thick... Boy, stuff from the future is both interesting and quite scary...we never have metal doors like this..."

Then Jonathan notices and finds a keypad next to the metal door as he then decides to press a few buttons...but naturally nothing happens, not even a single sound, when it has no power for it to work...

"Hmm...nothing is happening when I pressed the buttons... Not even a single sound... Probably it doesn't have any power...electrical power, I bet... Well, it'll be something I'll be able to do something about later, but right now I suppose I should head back and report my findings...especially before it gets dark..." said Jonathan

Finally satisfied to what he found and gathered; Jonathan would then make his way back to the hospital to report on everything he had found. Along the way back he was able to find slightly cleaner grocery stores to gather clean food, cans, and drink...though it wasn't too much to sustain the people that are currently there... Still, it was more than he had bargained for as he continues to make his way back, happily. By the time Jonathan gets back to the hospital to meet up with the others...a little over 3 hours would've passed...

"Excuse me, sir", Azumi interjected, "You are from the afterlife? I am from the spirit realm, a place a bit similar to the afterlife!"

"You never told me that", Ren said

"That's because it's rather rare for a yokai to be created from a dead thing these days. I myself was born into the spiritual world rather than coming from a formerly dead fox. The spirit realm and the afterlife are... I guess you could say closely intertwined despite sounding like the same place to some"

"Either way, you can stay. You sound pretty noble, what with defending the world after being summoned", Ren said to Sirius and smiled, "Besides, your another one of the sandman's victims. Didn't expect him to bring a dead guy though. At least you're unkillable..."

This only caused Azumi to scold Ren for treating Sirius in a way that suggests he could take hits for them instead. Ren was always the type to focus on the mission during his time with the Treasoners and the present was no different. He never changed.

Then Sirius summoned ethereal crows, causing Azumi to squeal in glee. She has a penchant for summoning beings from the spiritual plane and her interest in it was neverending, based on Ren's recollection of her nagging him about the topic.

"Look Renny! Summons!"

The crow began to peck at Ren, pulling back his hood.

"Knock it off! You remind me of my bird, Gatto, ya jerk!"

Azumi snickered wildly. However, her making fun of her son ended up with another crow poking her by the tails, which made her yelp in pain. Her tails were a rather sensitive part of her physical form after all, being the central storage of her mana.

Sirius had mentioned that it was Jonathan whom told him to find them and stay with them so Futaba loosen up a bit. "Oh, you met Jonathan? Sure sure. You can stay. I'm sorry of my defensive manner, because we just had some chaotic moments before. If Jonathan trust you then you can stay. We were all here when we woke up into this madness, the sandman doing." Futaba gave a slight summary to Sirius before heading back to Jalie. It looks like she tried to make connection to Camry next door. "Is he okay? Should we force this door to open?" She looks up to Jalie if the rabbit-like woman can make some sort of connection to Camry's mind.

Meanwhile, Azumi seemed to take an interest on Sirius since she claimed that she came from such a similar place to him.