Chapter Text
It all started the day after they posted their newest song. Kanade, Mizuki, and Ena noticed that Mafuyu stopped coming online. She wasn't responding to any DMs or texts in the Nightcord group-chat.
"Where is she? It isn't really like her to randomly go offline for such a long time like this! Unless her mom took away her computer. She better not ghost us!" Ena asked, leaning back in her chair.
"We could check in the empty sekai..." Kanade suggested, her face illuminated by the light of the monitor.
The 3 of them clicked on the 'Untitled' song file.
'Untitled.mp3'
A bright light flashed, consuming them, leaving an empty space where they were before.
Now in the empty sekai, they looked around. The vocaloids were nowhere to be seen, and the cold, black pyramid structures and trusses looked like they were sinking into the ground.
"Ahhh, now where did she run off to..." Ena muttered.
The fog against their skin was humid, and felt like it was pulsating, like a heartbeat.
"Jeez. Why'd it get so creepy here all of a sudden?"
Mizuki poked at one of the trusses, which had gathered some rust across its surface. She nearly cut her finger on the sharp rusted metal.
"It is quite creepy." Kanade agreed, squinting to see through the fog.
"Then we should get out of here!" Ena told her. "-since it looks like Mafuyu isn't here!"
"It doesn't look like anyone's here..." Mizuki said.
The fog seemed to grow thicker.
"It's getting hard to see..." Kanade moved her hand in front of herself.
"Well then, we should get out of here! I would rather be somewhere that i can see." Ena sighed.
Mizuki hadnt seen Ena this freaked out since they went to that "haunted" tunnel.
One of the trusses sunk farther down into the ground.
Clatter...
One of the beams broke away from the criss-crossed metal of the truss, and Miku revealed herself from behind it.
Her twintails looked even more messy than usual, like they were hastily put together.
"Miku... Have you seen Mafuyu? Or..any of the others?" Kanade asked.
"Mafuyu..." Miku said.
"I havent seen her. MEIKO, KAITO, Rin and Len have stopped talking to each other. The lake has fallen still."
Kanade, nor the rest of nightcord, understood what she meant by that.
"I think, you should go. If you're looking for her, here isnt a place to look." Miku reached out towards Kanade.
Miku's fingertip made contact with her, and Kanade turned to a burst of light, having been transported back to her room.
And then Ena, and then Mizuki.
Miku now stood alone, in the void.
KANADE'S ROOM
Kanade squinted at the computer moniter. Her heart felt heavy. If Mafuyu wasnt in the empty sekai, where was she? A thought grew inside the back of her mind, spreading its anxious tentrils across her brain.
Were her songs not enough to save her?
Where was she? Where could she have gone?