Mikaonii

He was gone, my brother was gone. The darkness had devoured him forever. I cried into my best friend Alice's shoulder wishing it were all a dream. She pet my hair soothingly, trying to help me. "He's gone Alice! He's as good as dead!" I whimpered sorrowfully. She sighed.          "I know Mika, I know. But maybe we can save him." She said, thinking hard. "What? How? It's impossible! He's been taken by Oyashiro's curse!" I questioned. "Once Oyashiro has you, your dead!"          "Listen, Oyashiro doesn't kill immediately, Or any time soon. We have about a week." She said in a matter of fact tone. I wondered how she knew so much about t