Chaser: Tokyo 2420 A.D.
=Prequel to Remnants of the Old World=
I own nothing…
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With a buzzing sound in the evening's air, Yumi was sent smashed into the concrete wall of the empty gymnasium. Blood soaking through her blazer, Yumi could barely get up when another blow was delivered at her. The once marvelous school is now a battle ground in the struggle of dominancy between humans and the unearthly. But it was the human's fault, if they hadn't play gods and attempted to manipulate things that are best left alone, this war wouldn't even happened.
Fukuzawa Yumi, one of the many successful breed known as Chaser is man's last line of defense against the unholy creatures they brought forth by the combination of science and forbidden magic: Slaves. Chasers are created with only one purpose, destroying Slaves. Unlike the other Chasers, Yumi is a rare type and there are less than a handful of them around the world fighting to save mankind of extinction.
"You're not human, why do you fight for them?" a cold voice asked. "Because… they give me life…" Yumi answered forcing herself to get up. "They give you life because they needed you; like they needed a tool to fix the mess they're in." "Heh, that's exactly what I am," Yumi said with a smirk extending her right hand as it tore apart only to pulled back together after a gun morphed out from the silver liquid from her torn hand. Another blast headed her way and she leaped out of the way while pulling the trigger, with each bullet being repelled by an invisible magic field another would continued to hit at the exact same location until the magic field shattered away. With a single bullet, Yumi aimed for her opponent's head. After all, that skull helmet was starting to annoy her, because she wanted to see what kind of person would side with those ferocious monsters.
The bullet has managed to crack the helmet, falling apart to reveal a beauty that's beyond comparison. "Oh, my bad…" Yumi said raising her hands up in mock surrender while holding her gun loosely. Lovely sapphire eyes and long flowing midnight tresses, Yumi know for sure that her opponent is very real and very human. The beautiful young lady looked rather angry at her words, wielding a long and beautiful naginata with a deep blue laser blade and pointing it at Yumi's throat to the point of drawing blood. "Did anyone ever tell you that you're beautiful?" Yumi asked knowing her life could end at any moment. Her opponent was so taken aback by her question that it gave her enough time to fluidly move out of reach and behind the young woman; Yumi couldn't help but ran her fingers through those long midnight tresses feeling the silkiness of it.
"So beautiful…" Yumi murmured as she wrapped her left hand on the woman's waist while her right hand held tightly onto the woman's hand as her gun was nowhere to be seen. Struggle as she might, Yumi refused to loosen her grip on her prey, the closeness between them given Yumi a chance to take in the scent of her enemy. It was definitely different from the average human, Yumi could tell because of her keen sense of smell. "Let go," the woman struggled. "Tell me your name and I will," Yumi answered without a second thought to it. "Ogasawara Sachiko," the woman replied automatically. "Let's meet again Sachiko," Yumi said giving the woman a peck on the cheek before letting go of her and moved away quickly. "I must get going, my target should be far enough for me to give chase now. Go easy on me next time," Yumi said with a wink before leaving a blushing and speechless Sachiko behind.
"That… that arg…" Sachiko could only let out a frustrated growl feeling the heats flaring up on her cheeks as she touched the spot where Yumi's lips had been. It was unbelievable, Sachiko was enjoying the view when she saw a glimpse of a demon running away from that girl with shoulder length brown hair, being a halfa that she is there's no way she could just turn a blind eye to a brethren in need. Activating her armors, Sachiko interfered with the chase and held the upper hand against a girl that smelled of her own kind. What Sachiko doesn't understand was why would someone going after their own kind, cutting down their brethrens without mercy or remorse. They fought for hours, and when Sachiko thought she'd won the girl had went and said something as silly as complimenting her beauty.
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"Sachiko, there's someone I like you to meet," Ogasawara Tōru said entering the large living room. Sachiko looked up from her book and to her surprise; the person behind her father was non other than the girl she fought last week. "She takes after her mother," Tōru said to the girl behind him. "I am honored to have met such beauty," the girl replied in the most respectable manner possible. Compared to before, she was definitely looking handsome in her black suit and loosely tied back hair; her mocha eyes twinkled looking straight at Sachiko as though challenging her to say something about the incident between them last week. "My daughter is lucky to have someone of your position wanting her hand in marriage," he said laughing crisply. "Chief of the Global Defense Department isn't all that interesting, and I belief we both know why." "Indeed, but you've been a great help to us thus far," Sachiko's father nodded his head. "Ah, I have a meeting to attend so I will leave you two alone to get to know each other better. Sachiko, do not scare away your future wife," he said looking over at his daughter, who remained calm and stoic even at the shocking news she'd just heard from her father.
"What is your motive?" Sachiko asked once her father left the premise. "Didn't I say we would meet again?" Yumi said tucking her hands in her pockets feeling the tension thick in the air. "So you plan it all along?" Sachiko asked closing her book with some force to it. "Both your grandfather and father are brilliant men, after all thanks to them that I was born and was able to meet such a beauty like you." Yumi said ignoring Sachiko's question as she looked out the windows. "I have to admit that I wasn't planning on seeing you so soon, but it was an offer that I simply can't deny. A chance to make the world livable for both humans and nonhumans, I've wished for it and they offered me the chance to make it happen. Even though I'm made to destroy what man's curiosity brought about, I still wanted a peaceful coexistence and willing to take the chance to make it happen if anyone offered." Yumi paused for a long moment.
"Tell me something beautiful, do you think we should keep on killing each other until none of us left in this decaying world? Or should we seek peace and brought life back to the world that we all called Home?" she asked turning around and looked directly at Sachiko with those fearsome mocha eyes of hers. "After all, you're half-human and half-demon, you should know why humans reacts the way they do, the same with demons and other creatures that isn't in the same category." "So are you," Sachiko replied flatly. "Indeed, and that is why I wanted peace for all, it's not a crime is it?" Yumi laughed lightly finding Sachiko's defiance incredibly interesting and cute at the same time.
A/N: This is a prequel to the first one. Likely to just fill in a lot information that happened before the current world that Yumi and all the others lived in. Enjoy~