Reeessshhhhhh < Please stay calm, due to animals being on the line we have had to stop momentarily, for your safety the windows have been automatically disabled, estimate time to start again 5 minutes >

I gently push Zelia up, the noise I must have heard is the train making an emergency stop? “Mnn Lilia what's going on?” I tell her about the announcement, when she sleeps she sleeps hard. “Ohh weird… I mean it’s not like they would need to turn the windows off to wait for animals to pass by or anything?” where the window was before is blank wall, as if you couldnt see the outside before this, a small console to its side the only thing showing what was once there.

“Yeah I don't know… I hope it doesn't make us too late for meeting Keeks…” Zelia mnns and gets up while stretching, approaches where the window was before and presses a small console.

“You said it was automated right… I bet there's a manual override…” I lean back in my seat and watch Zelia pressing buttons, looking up and down on it, eventually stepping back, “Whalah! Open sesame~” She presses one more time with her finger. The window flickers to life, as does the dripping blood that is now displayed there.

It has to be blood… I’ve seen enough of it and felt enough of it to know it in an instant… but, it's blue. It slowly drips and slips down, pieces of skin and what I can only guess are pieces of organ, obscuring our vision even more than the viscous blue blood, as it drips further away we can see where it came from… or what. A mass of fur, muscles and what used to be limbs, its entire body eviscerated with parts of it now coating the train. With all the parts lying around it it must have been gigantic, some kind of mutated beast of enormous size.

Zelia steps back horrified, turning to me and then back to it as if discerning that we see the same thing. I only gulp and nod to her as I stand up and try my best to make out anything else beyond that. As I get out of my chair a figure steps past the corpse of the thing and strides towards the train, a silhouette of their body, tall, with large breasts, she has her hair in a bob with some of it then falling back down, she stretches like its just a normal day at the gym.

She seems to look around and then pulls out something, after a minute of what I can only assume is talking, she starts waving her arms around like an annoyed teenager. The train lets out an announcement noise.

< We will be leaving momentarily, thank you for your patience! >

Maybe their job is done and they were letting them know or something… I feel empty seeing it, like it was just a movie being displayed outside our window, my brain screaming to me the reality of the situation but im just not listening. The train starts moving, slowly at first and then picking up speed, a foam comes down the outside of the train and as quickly as it existed, it didn't, blood and more, slipping off through the wind along with the foam.

< Resuming use of windows, arrival time half an hour, we will inform you when the walls of the Sydney sanctuary project are within view >

Zelia regaining herself pulls out her phone and starts rummaging through the net, I pull her down in her frenzy and she barely notices as she types away. “There's gotta be something on the net, considering how far away that thing was and the amount of blood splatter and and… it was frigging huge! There's been talks about aggressive animals and growth and all that but this is nothing like that?!” She’s panicking and aggressively using her phone trying to search the best she can. “How is there nothing?... I mean there are the conspiracy sights but they aren't talking about anything like this, just the stupid bird theories and A.I. shit.”

I keep quiet, letting her ramble and think as I hold her close, the person that I saw still on my mind. She walked with purpose around that creature, or what was left of it… did she kill it? And how? With all I’ve seen in real life and in WAR I dont feel surprised at such a creature, but this is reality… and people can’t kill monsters, most of us can't even kill other humans, we are weak and pathetic creatures that somehow made it to the top of the food chain on earth.

“People are saying the world is changing… maybe we just aren't meant to be on top anymore Zelia…” She stops and looks at me, pausing what she was talking about.

She gives me a small scared smile, “Even if that's true… how would we kill something like that… I mean guns and weapons, fine, but I didn't see any of that on that person out there, ugh this just makes me think about the sanctuary projects more… fucking ‘just a precaution my ass!’ they for sure know more than is in public… maybe this has been going on for years but now its just approaching some kind of final evolution!? But if that's true then why are people the same… not like I see any massive hot women around except for my Lilia…” She holds me and I feel her words ring true, yeah… none of it makes sense…

I hold her close and try not to think about it too hard… about what the repercussions were, thinking of the cowards way out, we have walls to protect us, we won't ever have to worry about anything, we are just normal people, some people are just special and can do things like that person, we will be safe, If… I touch my stomach while listening to Zelia talk and talk, trying to piece things together and throwing out ideas and then discarding them again, I push down on my insides through my stomach.

It's going to be okay.

< Sydney City and our brand new Sanctuary project is now visible from your windows, the future is now! > I pull Zelia up and she stops talking, her voice a blessing and a discomfort at the same time, all the things she’s proposing sounding like they are from some kind of video game or web novel.

We approach the window and can't help but gasp, even from Kilometers away, it rises up, beyond the clouds, endless white with blue lines running up each piece of it, it stretches to the point of absurdity, “Zel… I think we should move to the central region…” I feel her nod in my grip against my chest. “And soon… this is more than a precaution… fuck.” She turns towards me and I see the fear in her eyes reflect my own.

“Mnn… I can't agree more… fuck.” I squeeze her tight into my chest as I watch the wall keep extending upwards, Kilometers into the sky, as we get closer it blocks the sun shrouding us in darkness. The future is now huh…

< Now entering Sci-Axium Central Sydney Region, Please enjoy your stay! >

Can we, after seeing that?! Ugh… At least we are going to be with Keeks… I’m sure we will forget all about it with her today… her chaotic nature is one to override all things in the universe!

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As we exit the train station I get a burst of anxiety in my heart, so much has changed since those days… I look to Zelia as I feel her hand wrapped softly around mine, she’s smiling for me. That worrying way she smiles when she knows I’m feeling something wrong, I pull her in close and breathe my love in. “It's not the same place as back then, right…” She pulls me out of the way of the crowd of people getting off the train, none of them baffled at the size of the towering walls, is none of this real to these people?! She holds me to her neck and runs her fingers through my hair, I breathe her in again. I need to stabilize, I can’t be like this for our friend.

“Mnn and you aren't the same Lilia, my Lilia has become so much stronger and more beautiful since then~” She teases me with her soft voice in my ear, my worries seeping away through the hole in my chest that this place caused so many times.

I breathe out and run my fingers through her beautiful dark hair, the jangling of metals together bringing my ears as much joy as her voice. “And still my Zelia but so beautiful, not that you weren't an angel to me back then… now you're just a slightly evil angel~” Ooowww Her finger jabs me in the side as I finish my words, releasing her and holding myself, her mouth in a pout of annoyance.

“There's nothing evil about witches hmmph, I would say witches are even more good than most people!”

“Yes yes my love, nothing evil about you, definitely not your tastes in fanfiction could indicate anything like that~” She pulls out her phone in annoyance.

“We need to be at the sushi place soon! Come on!” Still pouting slightly she pulls me along as I giggle, mnn my perfect angel of wickedness.

Arriving at ‘Drunken Sushi’ we look around for where she could be, from the messages she should have gotten here a few minutes ago easily. I feel a tugging on my sleeve as a childish giggle comes from Zelia’s throat, I see her pointing to the front of the shop where a street lamp is, behind it is a small woman sitting on the ground, cradling and squishing her face into a cat's belly, the cat is… not amused at the least, its eyes looking into heaven asking to be saved

“Unmistakable haha, I wanna watch her forever… mnn I miss Buta~” I shake my head and brace myself, thinking up something good to say as I start to approach her, before she realizes I prepare my best pickup line… well at least best for the person in mind.

“Hey there cutie, wanna get crushed between some thick thighs?”

“THIGHS?!” An excited adorable face pulls herself out from the cats belly to its relief, her eyes sparkling with utmost want and need, a dazed look that upon seeing me jerks itself out and into reality, realizing she is not in her capsule of safety and just screamed out her wants to the world, instantly blush rushing to her face. “Whhhhyyyyyy why would you do thhaattt! I was going to make an awesome impression and everything!”

Zelia is bent over laughing behind me and hitting me on the back with her fist not able to contain herself to just her own body. I smile wide trying to hold back my own laughter as I extend my hand. “How else was I supposed to check who you are? Ask normally? That's not what friends do! haha”

She looks at my hand and then me, blush still on her cheeks, scrunching her eyes her hand extends out and clasps mine, Nacho getting off her lap as I pull her up to her feet, she crashes into me, her light body barely rocking me as I catch her.

“I’m really glad to finally meet you after all the time spent together, I’m Lilia and this is Zelia!” Zelia manages to stabilize herself, tears in her eyes as she breathes in and out clutching her chest like she’s having a heart attack..

“Hah… oh god that was perfect… fucking thighs… I'm dead, no more hah… aahh… So good to finally meet you!!” Zel jumps and pulls both of us into a hug, pulling us as tight as possible.

“Agh pleeasee!” She lets us both go and like a scared animal Keeks steps away slightly, fumbling with her hands. “Really nice to meet you, I’m Keeks uhh Kiera, but Keeks is fine or whatever, uhh really happy to finally meet you both a-and I hope we can be good friends and stuff…” She looks so shy but happy to be here with us. I hear an Ahem from down at our feet, “OH sorry Nacho! And this is my cutest cutie in the whole wide world, my Nacho!” She picks up the cat and presents it to us as if it's won a prize at a fair.

“Hello, I will be accompanying Kiera today, just making sure she doesn't get into any trouble. It's very nice to meet you both, thank you for taking care of her in game.” Nacho bows the best she can in Kiera’s arms and we instinctively bow back, her intonation reminding me of some sort of royalty from one of my RPG games.

“Naww you here to have fun too Nacho!” Nacho sighs and rolls her eyes, which… is something I’ve never seen a cat do…

“I hope you get to visit soon, Buta would love you Nacho~” She flinches slightly.

“Yes I know all about Buta, your Fia is quite the photographer…”

“Oh she is now Felicity” They nod knowingly.

“I’m aware… she celebrated on the networks with exclusive Buta pictures, everywhere you would look that fat cat would show up, nearly driving me mad with the amount of messages that came through. Did you know that we have no ability to block or deny the messages from others of our kind? It’s ridiculous, just gives me a headache everytime!”

“Ohh uhh I’m sorry I will let her know to not go crazy on such a thing next time?” Fel threw a party because I chose her name? that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside! I mean it’s an important name to me… but that she actually likes it as well means so much.

“Ugh please don’t, she deserves to be happy… at least she didn't get named something ridiculous” Keeks looks at us in shock.

“Wh-what do you mean?! You're my Nacho kitty! You have the best name!” Nacho winces in anguish and I realize we should make sure we eat before the movie starts.

“Heh sorry to burst the bubble but I’m starving and need to eat before the movie.

“Smooshi Time?!” Kiera’s eyes light up with such joy.

“Yeah cutie, Smooshi time.”