Hope. Something he doesn't believe in.

The window shows the alleyway that goes both left and right. The pathway that goes to Beth's left leads out onto the main road of Death City. Yet the pathway that goes right leads further within the back-alleys of Death City. The scratch marks lead deeper within the back ends of the city.

Beth jumped up onto a light pole to see what the two were doing. She had on her keen sense of smell and eyesight. "Now we shall see what you are doing..."

The cloaked man ran down the street, following the scratch marks to search for Alex. It only gets darker and darker down the street as the man begins to disappear in the pitch black alley. No signs of light were found within the back alleys of Death City. The air wreaked of raw sewage and scorched wood, it was a mystery as to why some people lived her. Alex had often come down here in case something really bad was bothering him, yet the cloaked man wasn't the reason he ran.

Beth fell to the floor of the building with a loud thunp. She was getting tired of these searches. Before she could get up, blood was leaving out of her right arm.

After a long while, gunshots erupted on the other side of the city. No one was certain as to what was going on or where the shots came from, but the firefight lasted for about three hours. It was around 10:00 pm. Alex finally came back to the apartment, covered in blood and tired as hell. This was something normal to him. Walking through the front door, his upper body was covered in bullet holes. The shine of crimson ran down his chest as his arms were constricted with what looked of snake tails. The tails formed the stocks of his UMP45's, indicating they were his weapons, their meister. Both of the guns had changed into their real forms, half human and half snake, lamia to be precise. One girl was based on red while the other was based on blue, both of them slithered towards the bathroom, carrying him.

Beth headed towards the center of Death City, limping her way to the closest bench where she can rest on. She moved her hand off of the wound that was covered in red blood. It was hurting her, until she noticed that a bullet was burried in her lower arm. She had to remove the pain from her flesh.

Both of the girls had set Alex in the bathtub with warm water in it. He was laying there, tired and in pain. "Ako, stay here with him. I will be back." As so, Ako stayed with Alex, washing him off. But Riko went to look for Beth. Eventually, slithering her way around the public, staying out of sight, Riko eventually found Beth. She knew that Beth did not know her, so she had to take a subtle approach. She sneaked her way over to Beth, and picked her up, taking her back to Alex's apartment. When she reached the apartment, Ako already had Alex on the couch, dead asleep. "He's okay, sis." Ako told her. Riko proceeded to the bathroom to help Beth. The blue snake girl set Beth on the tub, "Are you okay?"

"No, my arm is bleeding.Who are you two?" Beth asked as she snuck most of her arm under the water to kill the germs that were entering her wound.She let out a quiet groan, but then sighed with relief. Beth was still angry at Alex afterall.

"I'm Riko, and the girl out there is my twin sister, Ako. We are his weapons. Who are you?" Riko asked, wondering what happened to her. Riko got out a first aid kit that was sitting underneath the sink in the cabinet of the bathroom. She prepared it and was helping Beth of her wounds.

"Beth, but that really doesn't matter right now.Thanks for the concern. I was actually just leaving. " Beth replied in a stern tone, before the little weapon could finish up her wound. She knew they were crazy and wanted to leave the apartment.

"Why? Where were you going? Aren't you with Alex or something?" She asked, curiously. The firefight Alex had with the cloaked men was common around these parts of the city, they have been trying to capture him for months. He could never really catc a break, which explained why his apartment used to be messy.

Beth looked at the door and then at her hand that was on the doornob. "There is nothing going on between us.'She replied with a stern voice.

Riko then went silent as Beth's stern voice filled the air. "Well, best to just help you and then be on your way, then." She went to patch up any remaining wounds on Beth, making sure she wouldn't get ill over her wounds. After a bit, Riko finished up, "Well then, all done."

"If he wakes up, wondering where I am...tell him I'm dead." Beth looked down at her arm as a small tear drop fell to the floor in a slow motion. She never cried after her parents died, but this right here was like trying a new food she didn't know of. Beth covered her face and ran out of the bathroom.

As Beth ran out of the bathroom, Alex was sitting on the couch, coughing as if his lungs were full of dust. But Ako was sitting on the other end of the room with a few other men surrounding Alex, preparing what appears to be some form of medication. These men were dressed in a formal fashion and yet, all wore masks to cover their faces. One of them had a deep, thorough voice to indicate his dominance as the leader. Riko slithered out of the bathroom to try and catch up with Beth, but stopped to see the strange men toying with Alex.

Beth moved pass the men to return to the datk dreadful city. Things looked way better in the morning, but now things looked scarier, maybe evil. She jumped up onto a bench and let out a smile. Then all of a sudden a dog started to bitr at her.