Calli's POV
"Everybody, I'll start transporting you to your destinations right now."
"...But wait, I can make portals though-"
"GUH!" I said to myself as I got dragged from behind.
"Hey, who's doing this?!"
*EXTREME BOING*
"Guh...?" I said as I bounced on something and caught my balance as I staggered forward.
"Hey, young Calli. You're finally here after Yamada-senpai dragged you all to your spots."
"YAMADA-SENSEI DID THAT?! WHAT THE-"
"Anyway, continuing on with our business. We gotta go and get your parents. Don't wanna jinx anything, but hey, maybe this'll be easy for us since we can make a portal to your parents' house."
"Yeah." I said as I got into reaper form, summoning my scythe on my back, and I grabbed it with my right hand as I finally got it in front of me, and held it vertically with the blade facing to the left. I felt something flow through my right arm as it connected to the scythe, which was my LF. Exactly what I needed to make a portal.
I spun it to the left, and then to the bottom, making a 180-degree turn, then when it was around the bottom, I grabbed it with my left hand, and let my right hand go as I made another 180-degree turn, making the scythe do a total 360 spin and opening up a portal to my parents' house.
"Alrighty, let's go!" I said as I walked through the portal.
"I'm right behind you." I heard Calli-sensei say.
When I went through the portal, the scenery was familiar. The street lights, the pavement, the houses nearby, the buildings, the night sky, the cracks in the street, it was exactly home....the crickets too-wait....there's no crickets going off, matter of fact, what's going is....
"....W-What the hell....?"
Buildings are on fire, literally, and not only that, but damaged?! Now that I think about it, there are even more cracks in the street than I remember. You can still ride though, but you can definitely tell some shit happened.
"Oh yeah, forgot to tell you. All hell broke loose already." Calli-sensei said behind me.
"Oh man, I gotta pick my parents up and get the fuck out of here quick. Who knows what might happen next if I don't hurry up?"
I went to the house, and knocked on the door as quickly as I could, but just enough to make it loud, and not very hard like I'm trying to break the door.
"Mom! Dad! It's Calli! Open up quickly, please! This is very urgent!"
I kept knocking on the door way more times than I should've done, but I had to keep doing it. At this point, my knuckled were hurting a bit, so I had to shift from standard knocking to lowkey slam-knocking the door.
"MOM! DAD!"
I heard footsteps coming from the door when I leaned my left ear near it as I was knocking to hear if one of them or both of them would come to the door, so when I heard it, I stepped back once, and waited for the door to open.
"Calli, you heard the news too?" My dad said.
"Yeah! I wanted to take you guys back to this building where it's way safer. A guy who's stronger than me is waiting there for us to bring our families to him to keep you all safe until everything dies down. Where's mom?"
"I told her to stay up there until help arrives or some shit to not cause too much attention. Should I get her?"
"Yes."
"By the way, who's that....?" He said as he looked "behind" me.
"Hmm? Oh, her. That's my older self. She's my sensei. The one that's been teaching me to fight as I went on in daily life."
"Nice to meet ya. The Grim Reaper's apprentice, Mori Calliope, is at your service, Mr. Mori!"
"Huh....tell me I'm dreaming, please." My dad deadpanned.
"No time, dad!" I said as I slapped his back while running inside the house.
"OUCH! HEY! I'm an old man, don't do that!"
I went upstairs, going to my parents' room, and knocked on the door.
"Mom! Come out, please! It's me, Calli! The pink-haired red-eyed daughter of yours!"
"R-Really?" I heard through the door as footsteps can be heard afterwards, and I stepped back.
The door opened wide, seeing my mom hold some sort of belt at hand.
"A-A belt? Seriously, mom?" I sweat dropped.
"Hey, mom. Look, we got no time to waste! The outside world is getting really screwed up. We gotta get out!"
"B-But it's dangerous to step outside!"
"I can make portals though. Don't worry."
"R-Really? Then maybe we should go now-"
"Though, I wanna go downstairs for a bit and talk a bit with dad. Mind coming with me?"
"Hmm....okay."
Mom closed the room's door as she went out the room, and we went back downstairs, seeing my sensei and dad in the living room as the door to the outside was closed.
"Alright. So dad, I was thinking we should go to Kiara's house."
"Kiara? Why not send us straight to the building, then come back for her? Is it because the more people, the more hands we can lend to help her?"
"Yup! What do you say? I mean...I'm quite worried for all of my friends, you know?"
"Well, honey, I don't know about you, but I'm with Calli in this one. It's not like she could abandon her friends, you know? Kiara's also a good girl!"
"Well....as long as our chance to die is not high, I think I can go with you, Calli. Just expect me to not do a lot of things since I'm an old man, you know?"
"Yup. Well then, how about we-"
"FIRE, MEN!" I heard outside our house.
I gasped, and went into ethereal form as my whole body still looked the same as before, but I definitely cannot touch anything other than myself as bullets went through the windows, breaking the glass and letting the shards of glass spread on the ground while bullets still went through. It would've hit me had I stayed in reaper form, but luckily, I was still safe.
My heart was pounding a lot though, and it would've shattered had it hit my mom and dad.
"KYAH!!" My mom shouted.
"HOLY SHIT!" My dad said.
They both ducked and hid near the wall for cover, and Calli-sensei went into ethereal form like I did.
"Ah, shit! Young Calli, we got uninvited guests here! I didn't even sense their presences, somehow!"
"No shit!" I said, grabbing my scythe.
"Hey, mom, dad! Stay here for now! Me and Calli-sensei have some shit to do to these shitheads!"
"Don't die out there, please, Calli?" My dad said.