The Heart Of Shadow

Prologue

By: Kenji

It has been weeks after the disappearence of the sign from the zoanthropes. No one know how it came to an end but it did, and that's the matter gone.The usual life of all other zoanthropes came back to them, Yugo being a boxer at the same time being the leader of NGO, Alice became a head nurse of the hospital she's working in, Gado retired as a mercenary and continue hapling Yugo with the NGO, Long went back to his 'master', Shina are no where to be find and so is Shenlong and Stun, Jenny continue to be the 'fashion queen' and Busuzima continue to be locked up in the prison.

The two youngest of the zoanthropes, Uriko Nonomura and Kenji Ohgami, are back to their usual school life, getting up at 8, going to school, coming home and homework, the same usual life of bordom... with an unusual shadow lurking behind their backs... This is where 'The Heart Of Shadow' begin...

The Heart Of Shadow

Part 1: Shadow Self

Chapter 1: The Shadow and The Voice

By: Kenji

In the stillness of the night, the silent from the sleep, a person twisted and turned, wrining from the shadow while sweat traced the outline of his face. Kenji eyes kept close but under the eyelide, his eyebow are struggling. He twisted and turned, fighting to get free from his enemy. An invisible shadow hoovered over him and smirked, the shadow attacks caused new wounds on Kenji already bitter body. With one loud yell, Kenji morphed into a mole form and broke free from the shadow grip, his eyes remain close. Kenji strike with his claws and hit the air and yet the shadow scream in pain as it slowly disappear but seconds before he totally disappear, it gave Kenji a wicked evil smile, then vanished.

Kenji snap open his eyes and in it show fear from the battle he just fought, he could feel the line of blood running down his arm and down to the wooden floor. He calmed himself down and morphed back to human. Yugo choose this moment to burst in, he find his younger brother covered in bruises and a cut on his right arm. He look directly at Kenji's eyes and find them looking back at him with fear, his body shaking slightly, his face and neck covered by cold sweat and the blood of the wound on his right arm still dropping down to the floor.

Yugo went over to his brother and breifly examine the wound on his right arm, it wasn't serious and the blood started to form a scab over it. He lefted his head and came in eye contact with his brothers yellow eyes (A/N: I got prove it's yellow). "Are you ok? What happened?"

Kenji reaction seems like been knock out of a trace, his eyes once again hid the emotion and along it his fear. He shake his head as a respone.

Yugo watch his reaction carefully, he is curious about what happened. "What happened?" Yugo repeated.

"Nothing, just banged my arm against the coner of the nightstand." Kenji voice are calm but with a slight bit of fear.

Yugo know that can't be the truth, Kenji sences work only at night and he can sence almost anything at night, he can't possibly get harmed at night and by himself? No way this is truth, and beside, what is he afriad of then? But Yugo know that if he question on he still wouldn't get the truth, he will know it when Kenji are ready to tell him.

Yugo give out a sigh, telling Kenji he know that's a lie, and smile back at his brother. "Alright then, I'll get that arm bandages and you might want to take a little rest." With that said, he went out the room in serach of the first-aid kit that Alice put in a 'obivice' place, wherever that is.

Kenji watch as Yugo left the room, knowing it will take some time till Yugo will re-enter the room again, Kenji use his other good arm and wipe away the sweat from his forehead and cheek. He lie down on his bed and closed his eyes, not trying to sleep at all, but the battle he fought a while ago worn him out, without knowing, he fell asleep without returning to...that place...

(-_-)

The sun shine the first morning light, the light went throught the room window and on to the young boy face. The boy didn't even struggle to get out of the sunlight, he slept soundly under the warm sun.

Ouside his room, at the living room, Yugo had called the Alice and Uriko to come over. They sat on the sofa and chairs, forming a semi-circle. Yugo told Alice and Uriko about what happened last night and also breifly mention about putting the first-aid putting in a too secreted place. After the story the room was left silence, each at their own mind of thought about reasons.

"Could he be in a fight?" Alice asked.

"At night time?" Yugo questioned.

"It's possible you know, he is a mole and mole wakes at night." Alice informed, she had also studed about animals such as rabbits, cats, wolf etc.

Uriko, who had closed her eyes to think, finally opened her eyes "I don't think so, moles, as Alice said before, wakes at night but Kenji is a half human were-mole, he got keen sence at night so if anything tried to go near him, he will notice and if he knows something is going towards him, he shouldn't be afriad but no instead he is so..."

"What do you think it is, Uriko?" Alice asked.

"I have a feeling that it is something else, it's something that isn't physhic but that's just my feeling, in reality, I don't know." Then her voice turn to whisper "The feeling felt so real, it's like if it's reality."

"What's that?" Alice asked, she barely heard her voice while she whisper.

She shake her head "No, I didn't say anything." But her mind disagree, the feeling of her's are stronge. If she tell Alice, she might get some medince treatment for it.

"ARGH!" A scream of pain came from Kenji's room.

The three went to his room, Yugo push open the door and they find Kenji holding his head in pain.

"What's wrong, Kenji?" Yugo asked.

"T-The voice..." Kenji shut his eyes tight, hoping that, that will make the pain stop.

On the mention of voice, Uriko felt her knees weakling and she collapesed into Alice's arm, making Alice and Yugo double worried. Unknown to them, Uriko also heard the voice in Kenji's head. the message of the voice was unclear and in a low tone.

Da.ger .. com... .ear, th. battl. .f sel., ac..pt y.u. we...es., fe.r a.d y..r ..st

'What was that voice?' Uriko thought then look at Kenji who seems to relax after the voice stopped.

'Did you...Did I just heard the voice in your mind, Kenji?'

-To Be Continue...-

A/N: This time, I'm determinded to continue and finish this series, no one is going to stop me, no matter how many flames, hahahahaha!!!