<I>"You know what to do. Find the mouse, bring me his head."
"Yes, master..."</I>

As the heatwave passed by, the sun was beginning to set and Derp and Kagerou were waking up. Derp stood up lazily and started walking to the cave entrance, looking up at the sky. 
"It's becoming night time already." He said, turning to Kagerou who was brushing dust off her dress. She looked up at him and nodded.
"It seems like it. What're you gonna do?" She asked. Derp turned around and started to walk away.
"I'm gonna go for a little stroll." He answered, lifting up his paw.
"Okay, just be careful and don't break a leg!" Kagerou called out, chuckling.
"If I break an arm, I'll kill you." As Derp stepped out of the cave, a small rock tumbled from the top of the cave and hit him square on the head. He stumbled around seeing stars before falling into an inconveniently placed hole. Kagerou waited silently while trying to find a weapon in case something went wrong.
"Uh... The walls have ice on them, and I can't get out." Derp called up. "Little help?"  She hears Derp's cry for help and ran towards him.
"I'm coming!" Kagerou stops at the edge of the hole and grabs Derp's paw, beginning to try pulling him up. "Arghh, you're heavy !"
"As we all are some time during the day..." He said sarcastically at the wrong time. As Kagerou tried to pull Derp up, she stumbled from a stone, lost her balance and fell into the hole. Derp stands up, rubbing his head.
"What now?" He asked. Kagerou stands too and removes the dust on her fur.
"I don't know." She replied.
"We could always wait for someone to help us..." He suggested.
"Maybe. It's night, so other mice are probably sleeping."
"Yeah... I'm sure we can last the night, though."
Kagerou walked away and sat near a rock. Derp leaned back against the wall, looking up at the stars as Kagerou wrapped her cape around herself.
"It's getting cold out here." she mumbled. Derp nodded in agreement as she looked up at the sky. "Ah, it's so peaceful tonight." Derp closed his eyes and took a deep breath, eventually falling asleep again. Kagerou didn't take notice and started to think about how the others were doing. Derp slowly slipped from the icy wall and was soon on the floor, sleeping peacefully. Kagerou looked at him and stood in front of him, as if she were guarding him. Derp mutters something in his sleep, but was too incoherent as Kagerou listened.
"What did he want to say? I wanna know!" She thought, ready to attack anyone who approached them.

One of the mice with the blue blindfolds that attacked them back on the boat soon loomed above them, watching. Kagerou looked up and noticed something blue and led a paw on a knife made with obsidian. The mouse smirked.
"I wouldn't if I were you." Kagerou held her weapon tightly. The mouse slid down and took out a knife of his own.
"Lower your weapon or I will make you lower it. You don't wanna lose that pretty paw of yours, do you?" Kagerou lowers her weapon.
"Who are you ?" She asked. The mouse was much more clear in the moonlight as he unsheathed his weapon and moved towards her. He wasn't like the ones that attacked them on the boat, and seemed much more docile. His fur was as white as the stars and he had spiky silver hair that shone in the moonlight.
"I'm just a mere stranger, nothing to worry about." Kagerou stays on her defensive side and kept a firm grip on her knife.
"Then can you tell me why you threatened me? I don't trust strangers..."
"Because you're like me. You don't want to get hurt and you want to protect your friends with your life. You can't do both things twice from time to time." He sounded very calm, walking towards her with gentle steps. Kagerou didn't even try to escape. He stopped a few centimeters away, looking her in the eyes, a calm expression on his face.
"You may not trust strangers, as you just said, but sometimes trusting them is the best plan you can get." Kagerou looks at him in the eyes even if he is blindfolded, with a dissimulated fear
"Just unsheath your weapon. I don't think either of us wants bloodshed." She releases her knife. The mouse smiles, backing away.
"I knew you would make the right choice. When your friend wakes up, I'll help get you guys out of this hole." He bowed before sitting somewhere a short distance away, looking up at the stars. He seemed awfully... suspicious to be like that to quickly. Especially after that little incident that happened earlier. Is he really going to help them out? Or was he planning to kill them? Kagerou sits just after the unknown left, a bit feared Derp soon woke up curiously, sitting up alowly and rubbing his eyes. Kagerou had soon enough fallen asleep in a fetal position, her back rested on the ice. Derp slowly stood up and stumbled towards her, quickly looking to his side and noticing that mysterious mouse. He hadn't seen he was awake yet, so he walked towards a rock to hide. Derp couldn't fall asleep, instead looking back at the mysterious mouse and Kagerou's knife.
"Maybe I should--" he thought before soon being interrupred by a sound of suspicion.
"Hm?" The mouse heard Derp moving, he panicked, trying to reach for the knife to defend himself. He was soon tackled by the mysterious mouse, who held his knife against the back of his neck.
"I wouldn't if I were you." Derp continued reaching for the knife, the second one being pressed into the back of his neck.
"I said, I wouldn't if I were you." The mouse growled.
"Kagerou, help..." Derp squeaked, the knife being pressed against his neck more and more by the second. The mouse wasn't gonna just let him go, and at the rate he was going, not alive. Kagerou hears Derp and wakes up, grabbing her knife.
"Hold on, I'm coming!" she shouted.
"Don't come any closer or your friend is gonna become casserole for the hawks!" the mouse shouted, pressing the knife down firmly. Kagerou jumps at the mouse.
"LET HIM GO !" Derp screamed in agony as the knife sliced the back of his neck the moment the mysterious mouse was hit and knocked to the ground. Kagerou tries to stab the mysterious one in the neck, but hears Derp.
"Try to stop the bleeding with this!" and then throws her waistband to him. He caught the waitband, pressing it against the injury. The mysterious one jumped back up onto his feet, and gripped his knife.
"Very well..." The mouse looked Kagerou in the eyes, now with an intent to finish off what he was there to do. Kagerou mutters something, then jumps on the mouse to pin him to the ground. The mouse was helpess as he was taken down, the grip on his knife loosens and the blindfold rises up on his head.
"Show me your pretty eyes!" She shouted, tearing off the blindfold. Behind the blindfold, his eyes were a shimmering Navy blue, with a scar on his right eye. A large sratch that seems to still be bleeding. His eye was closed because of the blood, wincing from the sudden light.
"So you got the blindfold off..." He said, trying to push her off as he threw his knife towards the icy wall. "Big deal." Unusually, Kagerou smiles at him.
"Oh, you're cute !" she said, but then looks at him with a creepy frown. "Let me go, now."
"I'm trying to get you off of me." He muttered. She stands up and steps away.
"Well, now I'm off you." She walks to Derp and knelt beside him. "Are you okay ?"
Derp shakes his head, wanting to speak. The knife split his voice box clean. He managed to mouth "I can't speak" and "It hurts", but he was clearly trying to stop the bleeding as much as he could, as the mysterious mouse walked towards the wall and grabbed his knife, pulling it out of the ice and stepping back. He was examining the wall. Kagerou tries to stop the bleeding without strangling him.
"I'm sorry if I hurt you! But at least he didn't kill you."
"He should be lucky. My main target was to kill him." The mouse said, looking at the blood on his knife. Derp's blood. "But, considering we're stuck in here for now, I guess I could always... finish the job." He smirked as he looked towards the two of them. Derp was on his knees, holding his neck, trying to say "Run" and "Get away". He didn't want to see his friend die before his very eyes. 

Kagerou steps forwards, yelling at the mouse.
"Who the fuck do you think you are?! Why did you tried to kill him? He never did anything to you!", She growled and began to chant "Ah, rinki ratachiy ukupachami !"
"He is nothing but a menace to the society, if he becomes a Shaman, we're all done for! He will kill us all!" He shouted, the blood from the scar leaking onto his eye, he didn't even bother wiping it off. Gripping the knife in his paw tightly, he leapt into the air, throwing it down like a dagger. "I'll see you in hell!" Kagerou didn't have the time to protect herself and receives the knife in the shoulder. She shouted in pain, dropping to her knees.
"Augh, that hurts so--" The mouse landed on his feet, walking towards Kagerou and Derp, pulling the knife from her shoulder roughly, to assure pain. "If you're going to protect this menace, you're going to go with him." He said, growling. He raised his knife to finish the job. Kagerou closed her eyes.
"I'm not going to let him die!" she shouted, and she jumped in between the mouse and Derp, getting stabbed again, this time near her breasts. Derp could only watch as Kagerou stood in the way of the blade. Anger and rage welled up inside him as he watched, soon running towards the mysterious mouse, grabbing the knife that was dug into Kagerou's flesh swiftly and cleanly, trying to avoid anymore suffering, and swung down on him, making a huge cut from his chest all the way to his stomach. He dropped to his knee, looking at Derp with a smirk.
"<I>I've unleashed his inner demon...</I>"
Kagerou tries to get up, but faints from the pain. As the mouse got to his feet, he looked up to see a blade just centimetres from his skull. Derp had thrown the knife at his head, to certify his fate. The mouse screamed in agony as he fell, the knife stuck in his brain. Derp noticed that Kagerou had passed out and lifted her up, using his own two legs to manage to run up the icy surface. He only had a couple of minutes before he passed out, himself, as he successfully reached the top and looked around for anyone who could help. Kagerou mutters something while unconscious, but it was inaudible. Derp was seriously in trouble, as his vision started to go blurry, and he was stumbling a little. He couldn't stand for long. He stumbled to a nearby tree, resting Kagerou's unconscious body on it, before collapsing on his side. "I'm sorry..." was the only thing going through his mind as he passed out, himself.