Cap Driver parks his van, Minaro wakes up Rinka who had fallen asleep and they hop off the van.

Cap Driver grabs camping supplies and carries it to an open spot of grass right beside a big tree.

Rinka and Minaro attempt to set up the tents, but they suck at it.

Rinka grabs a pole and examines it.

Rinka: What the hell do I do with this?

Minaro grabs a corner of the tent.

Minaro: Maybe we stick the pole into the ground?

Cap driver gets frustrated looking at them, he approaches them and takes the pole and tent from their hands and starts to build it.

Cap driver: I'll make the tents, you guys do something else.

....

Cap Driver is done building the tents.His is orange, while Rinka's and Minaro's is light blue. The sides of the tents are see through and their floor is fuzzy.

Rinka and Minaro roll around in their tent, they take their phones out of their pockets and put them into a little bag on the inner roof of the tent and decide to take a nap.

...

It's the afternoon now, Rinka and Minaro wake up. They peak their heads out of their tent and see Cap Driver sitting next to a grill.

On the grill were some shrimp.

Cap Driver looks away from the grill and looks at Minaro and Rinka.

Cap Driver: Hey, the food's ready, you guys want some?

...

Rinka and Minaro take a seat under a tree, holding their plates full of shrimp and rice.

Rinka grabs a shrimp and starts to eat it.

Cap driver is looking around. He looks at Rinka and Minaro. Something catches his eye.

Cap Driver: Hey, you two move away from that spot!

Rinka and Minaro look at him, they grab their plates tightly and run away from the spot.

Rinka and Minaro look back at the spot. A dark red string is hanging from the top of the tree, it sways around at the spot they were at.

Cap Driver: That string was heading towards you guys.

Cap Driver walks towards the string and examines it.

Cap Driver: It's sharp. This string seems like it can cut someone.

Rinka: That was heading towards us?

Suddenly Rinka, Minaro and Cap Driver here several people yelling and crying. They look around.

Dark red strings are everywhere. People around their tents are being pulled up into the trees by the strings. Blood drips from the strings and onto the floor.

Rinka and Minaro are confused, Cap Driver is looking around.

A line of string zooms past Cap Driver and slices a bit of his cheek.

Rinka, Minaro and Cap Driver look up, the direction which the string came from. The leaves at the top of the tree rustle. Yellow eyes loom above Rinka, Minaro and Cap Driver.

The eyes travel through the leaves.

Cap Driver looks at the people being pulled into the trees, blood drips from their body as they have been tied to the trees.

Cap Driver looks at Rinka and Minaro. Rinka and Minaro are looking at him.

Cap Driver: I'm giving you guys another task, I don't know what's happening but we've gotta do something.

Rinka: Save these people right?

Cap Driver: Yeah, this is no longer a normal lake, it's a damn death zone. We gotta figure out what's going on.

Rinka runs to the left, Minaro runs to the right

Cap Driver runs forwards.

...

The vast lake is covered in trees, a good amount of sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves. Hundreds of people wrapped in dark red strings hang from the trees, all their blood dripping off their legs and onto the floor, painting the green grass dark red.

...

Rinka is running. He spots a red string heading towards him. Rinka moves out of its way and stops to see where it came from.

A red haired boy with a dark green eye patch stands on the branch of a tree, he's wearing a dark blue long sleeve shirt and jeans. Rinka stares at him, his only eye out is all black with some yellow lines forming a V and X in the center. The boy jumps from the tree and quickly punches Rinka in the stomach.

"What the hell!" Rinka thinks as the boy's fist sinks deeper into his stomach. Rinka is launched away and hits the floor.

The boy summons a red string from his finger and flicks it.

The string flies and cuts a little of Rinka's leg.

"He used a red string...This guy must be behind all of this."

Blood seeps out of Rinka's leg wound, the color of Rinka's blood is black.

The boy is surprised, he starts to talk with a low tone.

"So, you're the one with black blood, we knew we'd find someone around here who had it!" The boy exclaims.

The boy dashes towards Rinka who is still on the floor. Rinka uses both his feet and kicks the boy in the stomach.

The boy grabs Rinka's leg and throws him before being launched back by his kick.

"This is bad. I might have to kill this guy" Rinka thinks.

Rinka lifts himself up. The boy shoots a red string at Rinka.

Rinka dodges it and dashes towards the boy, appearing right in front of him. Rinka holds his katana up to the boy's neck. The boy is frozen in place.

Rinka's hands tremble.

"If I dont kill him, he'll continue killing others." Rinka thinks.

Rinka pushes his katana closer to the boys neck.

Rinka: Hey, If I don't kill you...Will you let the people go?

"Kill me, I'm not the only one here, so those people arent going down." The boy says.

"Kill him" Those words echo inside of Rinka's head.

"I can't do it" Rinka thinks.

Rinka punches the boy as hard as he can and knocks him out, then he puts his katana away.

...

Minaro is climbing a tree, several people wrapped in string hang from the tree, he grabs their strings and pulls them down one by one.

Minaro's gotten 6 people down safely. He stands on the grass staring at all the people he's saved. They lay unconscious next to each other.

Suddenly Minaro sees something from the corner of his eye. A fist, the fist slams into Minaro's face and pushes him back.

Minaro looks at what punched him. A guy with red hair and a sinister smile walks towards the unconscious people, the guy has a dark green long sleeve shirt on and dark blue jeans, his eyes are all black with some yellow lines forming a X and L in the center.

Minaro stares at him. The guy looms over the unconscious people, a puddle of blood is right under the people.

"Tch, no black blood" says the guy.

The guy looks at Minaro.

"You have black blood?" Asks the guy.

Minaro is confused.

"What the hell is black blood?" Minaro thinks.

Minaro: What? Why do you need black blood?

"You're really asking me that?"

Minaro and the guy stare at each other.

"Power, I want infinite power, why else?"

Minaro stays silent.

The guy starts to walk towards Minaro.

"Y'know you still haven't answered my question from before...Do you have black blood or not?" Says the guy while walking towards Minaro.

Minaro: I don't have that, whatever it is.

Minaro and the guy stand face to face.

The guy: I don't believe you, I'm gonna have to check.

"Check..?" Minaro thinks.

Suddenly he's kneed in the stomach by the guy.

Minaro is launched back, he grabs his stomach to stop himself from collapsing.

Red Strings appear all around the guy, they wrap around his arms and onto his hands. The strings form into two giant boxing gloves on each of the guy's hands.

The guy laughs hysterically and his grin gets bigger.

Minaro opens his hands and shoots ice beams out of his palms.

The guy swerves past all the ice.

"This will be a quick fight, if all you can do is long ranged attacks!"

The guy is right in front of Minaro. Minaro blocks the guy's punch. The guy goes for another punch. Minaro swoops under the guy's punch and punches the guy's stomach with his own fist.

The guy gets pushed back a good amount.

"Cool, you're not as weak as I thought you were"

The guy runs towards Minaro.

Minaro creates an ice path under him and slides towards the guy.

The guy dashes towards Minaro and attempts to punch him, Minaro freezes the guy's right giant string glove. Then he kicks the frozen glove with his right leg to shatter them

The guy swings his other hand. Minaro dodges it and kicks the guy in the face, launching him back a little.

The guy wipes blood off his mouth. The guy's grin gets even more twisted, it's starting to look less human like, he laughs even more.

"Yes! This is the fight I've been waiting for, you definitely have black blood!"

More strings form on the body of the guy. he creates a spear made of strings on his left hand, and makes another boxing glove on the right.

Minaro slides towards him, he freezes his own fist into an icicle.

The guy dashes towards Minaro and tries to impale him with the spear. Minaro slides over the guy and tries to kick the back of his head.

The strings on the guy's right hand detach and expand. The guy quickly turns around and stares at Minaro, the strings wrap around Minaro's leg and slams him into the floor.

The guy looms over Minaro.

The string on the guy's right hand forms into a blade. The guy swings the blade. Minaro rolls over and dodges the blade, then he jumps up and kicks the guy on the side of his face. The guy is launched away, his face slams into the floor.

The guy lifts himself up.

"Yup, you have black blood, I'm gonna have to try my hardest".

"Ultimate skill, Spider Prince" He whispers.

The guy starts to shake violently while laughing hysterically. Minaro dashes towards him and tries to kick him before anything bad can happen.

But several pieces of string appear out of the guy's body and grab onto Minaro's leg and throw him.

The strings around the guy all morph into sharp praying mantis like arms. The guy stands up and looks at Minaro.

Minaro stands up.

6 small little black dots appear on the guy's chest, they resemble spider eyes.

A hole opens up in the guy's stomach, teeth form around the hole.

The guy's transformation was complete.

"I haven't used this form in a long time, glad to use it again...Now spill some blood for me, will ya?" The guy says while his inhuman smile gets bigger.

The praying mantis like arms head towards Minaro. Minaro runs towards the guy.

5 Minaro clones appear beside the real one. All the Minaros freeze the 6 praying mantis arms heading towards them by touching them, the guy breaks them off his own body.

Then strings appear from the inside of the hole in the guy's stomach, the strings morph into two giant blades and swing around.

Minaro and his clones dodge the blades repeatedly. The guy dashes behind all the Minaros and swings the two blades.

The first blade hits all the Minaros horizontally. All the clones dissapear. The second blade hits the real Minaro vertically, slamming him into the floor.

The guy dashes towards Minaro who is lifting himself up and kicks him. Minaro is launched away.

The guy dashes towards Minaro while he's still in the air and slams his arms into Minaro's stomach.

Minaro is slammed onto the ground. The guy stands over Minaro, he looks at him while giggling.

Another praying mantis arm made of string forms from the guy's back. The arm is about to impale Minaro.

When a Minaro clone appears out of nowhere and punches the guy. The guy gets launched back. The guy touches his face as he looks at Minaro and laughs again.

Around 15 clones appear around Minaro. The real Minaro slowly lifts himself up.

"Well, that's unexpected, most people would have died by now, I guess that's the power of black blood" says the guy.

Minaro looks determined, with his 15 clones behind him all feeling the same determination as well.

TO BE CONTINUED...