"Six months ago, the impossible happened and everything changed."

The intense light of the city shone across the strait in-through the cover of cherry blossom trees, giving the cold, moonless night sky a faint sign of vitality. Billowing gusts swayed to the contours of a bluish-silver coupe' with each turn of winding road in the country-side. The blond-haired woman at the wheel negotiated the car onto a busy bridge over the strait, then briefly glanced left at her napping teenage son with midnight blue hair and three bleach-blond streaks across both sides and smiled.

She shook the boy awake and uttered, "Have you ever seen such a sight?"

The bright radiance of civilization found his eyes and he awoke in awe, wiping away the sleep to dispel disbelief. "We rarely get out of the city to visit your grandparents, so until next time...," she chuckled and continued, "...get an eye-full. This is a memory that will last forever."

"You're right, I've never seen it at night like this - it's astounding. Hey Mom, how much farther til we reach home? I'm getting hungry," the young man spoke anxiously as he looked toward his mother. His mother chuckled without restraint then responded, "Not long now, just across the way."

"They said that no one saw it coming..."

The teenager nodded before his sights met another marvel - the strait's calm waters painted by the skylights - and a familiar amazement returned to him.

"...yet there's fault to be found beyond that glimmer once called endless,..."

From atop the highest skyscraper flashed a hue of multiple colors before all lights faded into the void of night. All around, the lights on the bridge too dimmed to black and the sound of screeching tires and colliding metal soon followed; the boy's mother coaxed the coupe' to a stop.

"...I'm sure of it."

"Mom, what's happening," the bewildered teenager asked.

His mother jutted her head to-and-fro in survey of the bridge, meeting the sight of roiling fragments of ground in the rear-view mirror. Without hesitation, she threw the coupe' into drive, spun out, then sped down the bridge, dodging vehicles and people along the way. More roils manifested on the distant shore, a loud roar echoed from the strong wind gusts, heralding a shadowy figure that formed out of mid-air.

The coupe' negotiated the wide stretch of road with each painstaking swerve made to avoid the abandoned cars along the bridge. "Get in the back," the teenager's mother commanded. With no questions asked, the boy unbuckled his seat-belt and hoisted himself into the back seats.

Louder grew the roil's roar, attracting his mother's gaze upon the mirror again to witness a shadowy figure - a huge two-headed dragon with towering necks, massive wingspan, and three sets of glowing red eyes - gliding above. With eyes widened in fear, she accelerated in vain to widen distance between them and it. "Stay down dear, everything will be okay," she told her son under her breath.

Upward and forward the figure then soared to the threshold of the bridge as the coupe' closed in. Swooping down with a shadow drawn, cutting support beams and tearing up asphalt, it outstretched its necks and widened both jowls, closing in on its speedy prey.

With majestic flair, a radiant light from the highest pinnacle pierced night's darkness and the figure poofed into smoke; the skylights of the city shined far and wide again.

With too little time to react, the coupe' met with collapsing bridge and careened off, plummeting it toward the strait's sandy shore. In a last ditch effort, the mother unlatched her seat belt and climbed in back with her son, holding onto him as they lied out on the seats. She struggled to say with tears in her eyes, "Everything... will be... okay."

The boy yelled in anguish, "Mom!"

A crash resounded beneath the bridge from the coupe' colliding with the cold strait shore below.

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- KAIJUDO: THE CONVERGENCE -
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