VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision laid down in her bed. Her mind was restless
ever since the move, and even though she wanted to, she could not bring herself to
fall asleep. Her eyes traced along the edges of her ceiling in sullen boredom, and
as she rolled to her side, she fixated on the posters on the wall. They were for
a band she’d never seen nor heard of before. She was a girl of seventeen, and even
though the room was for a girl her age, it didn’t feel like hers. Her tired eyes
turned towards the window behind her bed as she pondered what she was missing.
Just then, she heard a rock hit the window. She smiled and shook her head as another rock banged against the window.
SheTamashi #36View on SuiVision pulled open the window and looked down
at 
KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision, standing outside alone forty feet
below. He stood out there alone, with shorts, no shirt, and an amused smirk that
seemed to always grace his face.
VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision looked down, folded her arms at KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision and whispered, ‘Hi’.
“Hey Vault!”’ Key shouted. VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision gestured for him to be quiet. Key nodded his head and said slightly quieter, “You’re going to miss the concert!”
“I can’t go out!” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said, “My aunt and uncle won’t let me!”
“But you know you want to go!” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said, frustrated. Vault looked away. “V” Key stated, “We were in those comas for six years. There’s a million things we’ve missed out on. I don’t want you to regret missing one.”
VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision started to say something, but she heard
noises outside of her door. She quickly closed her window and rapidly pulled the
covers over her body as she heard the door creak open.
“Hi”, 
her uncleTamashi #43View on SuiVision said, peeping around the door.
“Hi!” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision answered, trying to hide her panic.
Her uncleTamashi #43View on SuiVision entered her room. He was a man of
about forty-five years old. She could tell by the way he walked towards her bed that
he was uncomfortable with this situation. He wore a dark blue bathrobe over his pajamas,
and his mustache provided dark contrast to his otherwise soft face. He had a disarming
wholesomeness that made her trust him implicitly. It wasn’t a feeling she was used
to.
HeTamashi #43View on SuiVision sat at the foot of her bed. “I couldn’t
sleep tonight.”
“Me neither.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision answered.
“It’s the new rooms.” he smiled, “The safer rooms. It’s important that we’re in the same building as team Order if we’re going to keep the family safe.”
“There’s a lot that’s different.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said in a half-whisper.
HeTamashi #43View on SuiVision paused and looked down thoughtfully. “Now
I know I’m not your father. I’m not like him. I never was. And I know I can’t replace
him, but we have to stick together as a family. Which is why, obviously, you can’t
go to that concert.”
“I was never going to go to that concert! Do you not trust my judgment?”
“It’s not that I don’t trust it. It’s just that you’re still a kid! And there’s so much at stake! I know you have friends who ran off with 
ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision, but so did all those gang members. If anyone got a hold of you, I’d never forgive myself!”
“That wouldn’t happen.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said.
“We don’t have the police anymore to look out for us, or anyone else … that could help you get out of things.”
“And you think that without that, I’m not capable enough to make my own choices?”
“I didn’t say that.” her uncleTamashi #43View on SuiVision answered.
VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision pushed her head against the pillow. “We
should both get some sleep.” she snarled.
Her uncleTamashi #43View on SuiVision got up and started walking towards
the door. He turned back for a moment to find her head turned away from him. He shook
his head and walked out the door.
VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision turned towards the window with a furrowed
brow. She opened the window a crack. She waited five seconds until she heard the
quiet ping of a rock against the glass.
The booming pulse of electric base vibrated through the air. The ground itself began to shake as the interwoven sounds of the viola and electric guitar mixed together in a euphoric harmony, as the earth itself seemed to boom in accordance to the synchronized music.
“Are you sure this is a good idea?” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said, trailing behind KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision, as they both walked up a steep hill.
“Of course!” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision smiled, “You’ve got to let yourself live a little!”
“I never understood why you joined the Order side. It’s not really like you.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said.
“Maybe I thought you could use some company.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision smiled and they shared a glance. “Come on.” he said, “We’re almost there.”
The pair progressed forward to the top of the hill, and could see the stadium several hundred feet away. As they continued forward, VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision started breathing more heavily, and her hands started sweating. Eventually, they neared the entrance where two of Key’s friends, 
ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision and 
GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision stood there to greet them.
“My boys!” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision smiled, shaking hands with ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision and patting GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision on the back.
“Hi guys.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision smiled politely. She looked towards the entrance and saw 
a manTamashi #21View on SuiVision standing there with a dark purple jacket and fangs on his screen guarding the entrance.
“You good to head in?” GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision asked.
“Let’s do it! First concert of Nozomi!” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision grinned. ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision and GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision nodded their heads in excitement.
VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision quietly turned to Key, “I think I should
go back. This is Chaos territory, and I uh…”
“Don’t let the tough exterior scare you.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said, “These Chaos guys are all about freedom and not listening to anyone. Most people joined because 
OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision-” he started.
“-is a jackass” everyone said in unison.
“Thank you.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said. “But most of all, I know you V. And I know you’ll regret it.”
She looked down and took a breath, “Okay” she nodded nervously, “Let’s go.”
The synchronic booms of the electronic music pulsed through the entire stadium as all around, people were dancing in harmonic motion. Bright lights from the stage shone across the dark crowd. On stage, 
EDMTamashi #60View on SuiVision dj-ed his interwoven beats to the rhythm of the crowd. Rapid pulses played in succession as his music grew quiet and quieter still. That was when 
a manTamashi #38View on SuiVision walked onto the stage in a red coat.
“That’s Wolfgang.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said to VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision.
WolfgangTamashi #38View on SuiVision lifted his Viola and placed it under
his chin. He drew back his string and waited for the beat to drop. Once it did, he
wove several notes together in artistic contrast to the melody. His classical harmony
played well against the booms of the electric background rhythm. His notes ebbed
and flowed, scaled and quieted, all while giving a classical hymn new life while
contrasted against the electronic base. That was when 
another manTamashi #66View on SuiVision entered the stage. He had a black screen and a dark leather jacket with tattoos
stretched across his neck. HeTamashi #66View on SuiVision walked next to WolfgangTamashi #38View on SuiVision and they turned to face each other. WolfgangTamashi #38View on SuiVision drew back his bow. The man in blackTamashi #66View on SuiVision picked
up an electric guitar, and after a breath, they both started playing. The electric
guitar roared across the stadium to loud fanfare and a powerful rock and roll sound. WolfgangTamashi #38View on SuiVision matched hisTamashi #66View on SuiVision sound and played loudly and
with vigor. The two instruments clashed in perfect harmony as the electric music
pulsed loudly in the background. As the crowd cheered and danced to the music, ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision and GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision were facing forward fifteen
feet behind KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision and VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision
.
“Do you think heTamashi #13View on SuiVision has a shot?” GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision asked.
“Only if heTamashi #13View on SuiVision takes herTamashi #36View on SuiVision into his arms, pulls herTamashi #36View on SuiVision close and tells herTamashi #36View on SuiVision that sheTamashi #36View on SuiVision is hisTamashi #13View on SuiVision flower! And every moment heTamashi #13View on SuiVision spends apart from herTamashi #36View on SuiVision presence, is a moment that is less fertile and abundant with life!”
GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision turned to ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision with a deadpan stare. “Does that line ever work?”
Valentine gazed towards Key and VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision. The pair stood next to each other, but avoided facing each other. He relished their cute tension. “No.” ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision answered, “No one’s used my lines yet.”
A hundred feet above, in the top floor of the stadium, ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision loomed over the concert occurring below him. He watched hordes of people dancing below, like ants scurrying across the earth. He could see them dancing with vibrant emotion, while 
CoderTamashi #33View on SuiVision, standing by his side, had his hands on the controls.
“Is everything going as planned?” ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision asked him.
“Yeah. It looks like a great concert!” CoderTamashi #33View on SuiVision said. “To be honest, I never thought you would plan something like this. They really seem to like it!”
“And why didn’t you think that of me?” ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision turned to Coder.
“Well, I used to work for OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision before this. He disliked the gang for the way they did things, but my gut said you would be the better leader.” CoderTamashi #33View on SuiVision said with cautious optimism, “That’s why I joined your side.”
ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision
’s eyes turned towards the crowd. He scanned across the blinking lights for brief
glances of their faces. He closed his eyes and smiled with his back to CoderTamashi #33View on SuiVision
. “You were both wrong.” ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision stated to Coder’s
surprise. “Power’s a funny thing. When people see me, they project their deepest
hopes and their worst fears. It’s true that I can create a concert, and it’s true
that I can destroy everything these people hold dear, and you look at me like these
things aren’t the same.” Coder stared towards Chaos with concern echoed in his eyes.
“Look at these people below us. The way they cheer and raise their voices. They are
living the peak of their existence. The very height of their emotional crescendo.
This is what I live for.”
“Then keep doing this.” CoderTamashi #33View on SuiVision insisted, “We can keep having concerts! There’s no need to destroy anything.”
“Have you ever been to a concert?” ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision asked, turning towards the crowd, “Have you ever been to a concert every day?”. Chaos looked over the dancing crowd, drinking in their heightened joy. “These people will tire of this euphoria. Takahashi’s serum works because it changes the stimulus of happiness infinitely - something concerts can’t do. I’m no chemist, but I know that.” ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision turned away from the crowd and walked towards Coder and smiled. “And so it falls to me to give their lives meaning and watch the fire in their eyes burn as their souls awaken from the dire conflict around them.”
“Why are you telling me this?” CoderTamashi #33View on SuiVision asked him, trembling. “Are you going to kill me?”
ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision laughed. “Haven’t you been listening?
The same reason I do everything else,” He walked away towards the door. “For the
look on your face.”
On the bottom floor of an apartment building, OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision sat alone at a table with both palms resting on its surface. He closed his eyes and thought carefully. He adjusted his fingers so that each of them were approximately five degrees apart and his thumbs were parallel to the adjacent index finger. He took a deep breath, and turned back time to a memory, an old memory where he could channel all of his focus and adrenaline.
He felt a kick against the table leg. He opened his eyes and saw 
KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision standing before him with her arms folded. He blinked his eyes as he regained his sense of the present moment. They were on the bottom floor of an apartment building. The interior was ornate with mahogany tables and marble floors, but everything appeared to be covered in a thick layer of dust. OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision sat at a small table towards the center of the lobby, while Kitsune stood before him and 
HeroTamashi #73View on SuiVision and 
SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision stood close to the door.
“Hey!” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision barked, “Are you still with us!”
“Waking him from his meditation…” SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision noted, “that’s ironic.”
“Don’t pretend that you don’t know what meditation is for!” Kitsune shouted towards SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision, “It’s to grow your inner focus for when you need it! But we need it now. The time for growth has passed!”
“Yet what you fail to understand is that I need focus!” OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision said. “We need to plan everything perfectly if we’re going to survive as a faction. I need to prepare for every situation, and you need to do exactly what I tell you to do! Otherwise, this doesn’t work.”
“Well we need to do something.” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision said, “ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision is evil. I could sense it when I first saw him at the festival. I won’t wait to see what he has planned. Between HeroTamashi #73View on SuiVision, SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision and I, we have more than enough strength to take him out.”
“I’m not going anywhere with you.” SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision said.
“Fine, then just HeroTamashi #73View on SuiVision and I.” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision answered.
“You’re going with that traitor?” SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision asked.
“Didn’t you also switch sides?” Kitsune retorted.
“I was never on anyone’s side.” SuperiorTamashi #37View on SuiVision said.
“Right.” Kitsune said with contempt, “You never had any ideals to start with.”
“I don’t burden myself with catchphrases on what should work - only what does.”
“Children!” OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision shouted and everyone grew quiet, “Brute force isn’t always enough. As soon as we stop planning, we surrender the advantage. We need to plan first and act at my own discretion!”
“If we plan forever, we can’t win at all. My brotherTamashi #37View on SuiVision and I won’t fight together, but even he and I agree on this. I’m going to bring back ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision dead or alive.” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision turned to HeroTamashi #73View on SuiVision, “Hero! Are you ready to fight the forces of chaos?”
HeroTamashi #73View on SuiVision unfolded his muscular arms and walked
towards the door. “There’s nothing I’d like more.”
The music boomed as the sound of the guitar raged across the entire stadium. 
KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision, Vine, 
BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision, and 
AthleteTamashi #51View on SuiVision all jumped up and down to the beat of the electric pulse and interwoven viola.
BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision threw both her arms in the air and
cheered wildly, “Whooo!” she roared.
“whoo” Vine meekly echoed with her hands up to her shoulders.
“Come on, get into it!” BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision shouted enthusiastically. “This is it!” she said, as tears formed in her kind eyes.
“Hey” KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision said, turning to her, “Why are you crying?”
“I’m sorry.” BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision said, wiping her eyes, “But this is it! All the protests I went to. Everything the resistance did. It was all for this!” she gestured towards the stage, “So we could all be free and enjoy a moment like this.”
“Aww” KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision smiled and gave her a hug. Vine also smiled politely.
Then the music slowed to a stop. AthleteTamashi #51View on SuiVision and Vine began to look around. Then the sound of steel rang across the stadium.
KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision sprinted through the crowd which began
to spread to the edges of the stadium in her presence. KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision
, Vine, BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision and AthleteTamashi #51View on SuiVision stood still in the center of the crowd.
“I’m here for ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision!” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision shouted to the crowd and walked towards her friends, “Do any of you know where I’ll find him?”
“Why would we tell you?” BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision said.
“Excuse me?” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision replied.
“Why are you here?” KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision asked.
“I’m here to make ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision answer for his crimes. I’m going to send him to prison where he belongs.”
“What has he even done?” AthleteTamashi #51View on SuiVision insisted, “He’s a scary guy, but he hasn’t done anything bad. And you’re sending him to prison?”
“I’ve got him!” HeroTamashi #73View on SuiVision shouted all the way from the entrance, with ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision standing by his side. KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision began to walk away.
KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision tugged at Kitsune’s arm. “Why are you
doing this?” KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision asked. “Why did you join OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision
? You fought for a world where we can be free. Why won’t you let us be free?”
“I fought for our world to be a better place. That can never be if we allow evil men like him to roam free. I’ve made my choice.” KitsuneTamashi #9View on SuiVision said, and walked away towards the entrance.
“What are we supposed to do now?” Vine asked.
“We’re so close to the world we want.” BirdcageTamashi #10View on SuiVision said, “I don’t want to think about what OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision has planned next.”
“I think we should also fight for the world to be a better place.” KasumiTamashi #50View on SuiVision said, “I’ve been suspicious of ChaosTamashi #42View on SuiVision from the start, but I can’t stand the thought of OrderTamashi #41View on SuiVision winning.” she paused, “That’s why, the first chance we get, we should break Chaos out of prison.”
“What the hell! What the hell! What the hell!” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision shouted as she, KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision, GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision, and ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision ran down the hill away from the stadium. “You said this would be safe and fun! SheTamashi #9View on SuiVision had a sword she was swinging around! Did you see that sword?!”
“I’m sorry. I did not see that coming.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said, then looked back at her smiling, “but we made it out though, right?”
“Well, yeah, barely, but I don’t know. That could have turned violent.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said as they reached the bottom of the hill, gasping for air. GlassesTamashi #18View on SuiVision and ValentineTamashi #17View on SuiVision smiled at each other while KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision grinned and glanced at VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision.
“I haven’t felt that much adrenaline in a long time.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said with a smile.
“Yeah, well, that was about enough for me.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said, glancing down.
“Are you glad you came though?” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision asked.
“Maybe.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision answered.
“Did you have fun though?” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision asked.
“…yeah I had fun.” VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision said, looking away.
“Then let’s get you back home.” KeyTamashi #13View on SuiVision said smiling.
VaultTamashi #36View on SuiVision tiptoed through the dark apartment, past
her aunt and uncle’s bedroom, each of her cousins’ bedrooms, then finally towards
her own. She slowly opened her door and gently nudged it closed. Then as quietly
as she could, she pulled back her sheets and nestled under her covers. Her heart
was still beating rapidly from the night’s adrenaline, yet she couldn’t stop herself
from smiling.