A/N: The prologue takes place in episode 12 of the anime, but with an alternate ending. For fans of the Darksiders games, you know what this means.

Prologue

The night air was cool and chilling as a full moon illuminated around the Takagi mansion. Everyone was all asleep and the entire house was pitch dark, though some moonlight shined from the windows. Arisu, however, was not sleeping peacefully as she continuously tossed and turned from the dream she was having.

In her dream, Arisu found herself alone in a dark void. She looked for any signs of anyone she knew, but to no prevail.

"Where am I?" Arisu wondered, "Hello? Anybody?"

Then suddenly a light came from her right. She turned and looked at the sky. In her horror, a meteor shower fell and struck the Earth. As the first one hit, Arisu fell to the ground from the shake. As soon as she got up, she looked up again to only this time see two beings facing eath other. One had golden armor with what appeared to be bright blue, glowing angel wings and the other was pale looking in person, having horns at the top of his head, sharp, menacing fangs and claws and had wings also, only they were bat-like and upside down. The being with the bat wings struck first, but the armored man deflected its battleaxe with its blade. The armored man then took a swing from his sword at the creature, but missed. They continued on like this until Arisu felt a very uneasy presence behind her as light illuminated from behind. She turned around and saw the city in ruins. Signs of quakes and buildings in fire were shown around the area and hoards of "Them" roamed almost every territory. She could only give a look of horror and pity on her face as she witnessed the image shown before her. Then, like a volcano eruption, a large creature emerged from the ruined city and appeared to be a black dragon that had fiery marks on its face. It roared in triumph and soon took notice of Arisu. It's mouth then formed fire and spat at her. Before the flames could make contact, Arisu woke up from the nightmare screaming.

Shizuka was woken up by Arisu's scream, as well as almost the whole house.

"Arisu!" Shizuka asked in concern, "What's wrong?!"

"I.. I..." Arisu could only say before breaking out in tears and her head on Shizuka's chest. Shizuka then wrapped her in her arms and stroked her hair, hoping it would calm her down. "Sshhh. It's going to be okay." Shizuka said confortingly, "I'm here."

"Hello?" Rei asked from the other side of the door and then entered in a robe, "Arisu, are you alright?"

"She's fine." Shizuka assured Rei, then turned to Arisu and went back to comforting her, "Are you feeling better now?"

Arisu didn't answer as she could only continued to form tears and was silent for probably the whole night.

"I think we should leave her alone right now." Shizuka recommended as she was about to get up from the bed.

"Wait." Arisu finally spoke and stopped Shizuka from leaving to ask her something, "I would like it if you stayed here with me. Please?"

Shizuka gave a smile of approval and decided to stay. "Sure thing." She then got back in bed with Arisu. "Now why don't you tell me what happened."

"Well, alright..." Arisu agreed as she started telling Shizuka everything.

"Rei, could you please leave us alone for a little while?" Shizuka asked Rei.

"Oh, uh, sure." Rei replied as she closed the door behind her.

Rei went back outside the room when everyone else showed up to check on Arisu.

"What happened?" Saeko asked Rei.

"Arisu had a nightmare and is telling Mrs. Shizuka about it." Rei explained, "I hope she'll be alright."

"Wonder what that nightmare was about?" Takagi acknowledged, "It must've been one hell of a nightmare to have scared her that bad."

"Maybe she dreamed about one of 'Them.'" Takashi suggested, "They can give anyone nightmares."

"Either way, we'll find out in the morning if we have the chance." Saeko remarked, "I suggest we should let Shizuka take care of it. She seems to be handling Arisu's situation so far."

"I hope you're right. I mean, she seemed real upset." Rei said as she and everyone else left and went back to bed.

Outside the manor showed in the distance what appeared to be a shooting star, until further panning shows it to actually be the two beings that were fighting earlier in Arisu's nightmare in the form of a meteor heading straight for the planet's surface, confirming Arisu's "nightmare" is possibly coming true.

To Be Continued...