Prologue: Death in Darkness

He screamed in pain, fire coursed through his body, eating away his clothing and skin. All he could see around him was a large mass of shadows swarming around him and trying to devour his body. He feared for his life, Was this end? he asked himself, as he watched the shadowy monsters engulf his body.

Were they okay? He hoped they were okay. He didn't want them to be dead, he told them to run and that he would cover them. He had felt this great power rise within him when all of the sudden he felt something shot through his heart and then he went limb. He couldn't move his body, but he could feel everything that was being inflicted upon him. The shadows were sinking into his body as if they were leeches and draining his life essence by the minute.

Images flashed through his mind, seeing his lifeless body hanging upside down in the streets of Inaba. He didn't want his life to end, not when he had a chance to find...

A sudden surge of fiery energy burned in his chest, it was different from the pain that the shadows were inflicting upon him. It felt like a cry, a desperation of hope something that he needed access and reach for. He would use this energy to fight back and so he raised his hand toward the sky as the shadows surrounded. Moving felt like so much pain and it hurt like hell, but he had to fight it ... in order to survive.

Light enveloped his body and then three things happened: power, pain, and then darkness.


Everything was so cold, the auburn hair girl in a black school uniform curled herself into a ball. Her empty eyes showed little emotions, despite her body showing signs of shivering in the cold. She was embraced by the deep dark nothingness that the darkness had in its cold hands.

"Where am I? Who am I? What am I?" she asked, the same three questions over and over. Hoping that the darkness would reply and give an answer, yet all the same it gave her none.

She felt an odd wave of deep coldness embrace her, it was odd sense of coldness. She felt like she was being lifted out of her spot. It whispered in a beastly voice,"It is time."

Time? she asked herself, Time for what?

Her eyes grew heavy and fell to sleep, oddly enough the cold embrace was warm.