The Fourth Wall

A.N./ Okay! I am Shadowstormwarrior, for those who do not know! I enjoy changing my nickname a lot, so please bare with me on that. Right now, I am Kitsune or The Dragon Lady as far as my nicknames go. I'm not perfect with spelling or grammar, but spellchecker is available so don't hate.

Down to business.

This is my first fanfiction to ever be posted by me, so I will accept any advice/flames/praise and what not. Please bare with my little knowledge on some of these titles, seeing as I am not an expert.

Disclaimer: I, Shadowstormwarrior, do not own any of these anime series (however much I want to), the characters and such belong to all rightful owners, including my OC's. They belong to me.

Now then, please enjoy my amateur writing capability.

Prologue

He forced his eyelids open. His head was pounding mercilessly, while his entire body felt stiff and sore. Sitting up, he looked around groggily before the exhaustion drained out of him, replaced with confusion. It seemed normal, except for one thing. This was not China. Hell, this wasn't even the correct year from what he could collect just by looking around. There were huge, tall buildings made of glass, metal and stone everywhere around the horizon. Sure, he was sitting on grass underneath a large maple tree, and there were trees speckling the area he was in, but there were roads paved with flat, rough stone, metal benches with different designs decorating them, structures made of what he thought was colourful plastic, and absolutely no one wandering around. All he could think was 'Where the hell am I? What year is it? What even happened to me?' Was it a ghost town, if a town at all? Did anyone ever live or even pass through this place? All he could remember was that he was being chased by the cops, and somehow he fell unconscious, only to awaken here, wherever here was. He stood up, stretching out his sore limbs and scratching the back of his head. Wherever he was, he could at least explore his surroundings a little. But where would he even start. Growling to himself, he picked a random direction and started on his way. If he was going to explore this place, he'd have to be careful. Who knew what was lurking in the shadows behind him?

On the outskirts of the city, a teenage boy skipped rather cheerily towards an abandoned blacksmith shop. He had short black hair, one tattooed purple eye, one regular green eye, a scar running from his hair line on the left all the way down to his right jaw bone, and a snaggle tooth just peeking out of the right side of his lips. He wore a long sleeved black shirt, gray sweat pants and white running shoes. The one skull and cross bones earring in his left ear might be a reason people found him gay. He knocked on the door six times loudly before rocking back and forth on his heels with a happy go lucky smile on his face. The peep box slid open, a pair of bright yellow eyes staring at him before the box closed and the door was opened after many clicks of someone unlocking several locks. A girl with long, wavy brown hair, a dark red tank top, black skinny jeans, red and black running shoes, and many piercings stood there, with a very irritated look on her face. She was older than the boy. "Get in here, Pup. You were gone too long." she scolded in a whisper, grabbed his sleeve and dragging him in before shutting the door and locking it all back up. Pup glanced at her over his shoulder. "Come on Twig. I was only gone for three days." Twig snapped her head to him, looking very angered. "That's two days too long, Pup. You had Hawk, Chameleon, hell, even Coil and I worried sick. We had begun to think that Moonlight had gotten you." Pup chuckled brightly at this. "Like those assholes could ever get me." Twig slapped his shoulder lightly before ushering him through the dark, damp shop. "Just get back there. Hawk want's to know what you found out." He let himself get herded towards three others, two males, and one female. The female had long brown hair tied back in a ponytail, green eyes, a thin vertical scar on her chin, a black jacket with many pockets, black ripped jeans, long black boots, a green decorative scarf and lilac stud earrings. The second oldest male had short red tussled hair, ocean blue eyes, the white part on one eye tattooed blue, wearing a light gray shirt saying 'This is my happy face, my sad face, my angry face, my tired face, my annoyed face, and my are you serious face' in black letters, baggy black cargo shorts, blue converse flat tops, and silver dog tags on a gold chain necklace. The other male had short spiky blonde hair, one gray eye, one hazel eye while wearing a white muscle shirt, a camouflage cloak with a hood, camo cargo pants and big black army boots. All three looked very annoyed with him. "Where in god's name where you Pup? You were supposed to be back here on day two! At eight in the morning!" the red headed male shouted angrily. "Not so loud, Coil. We are hiding on enemy territory." The female shushed rather nervously. The one identified as Coil snorted, mumbling "You're just as angry" under his breath before crossing his arms. Twig shook her head. "I had thought you were caught by Moonlight." " Yeah. You had us all worried about you, midget." Coil butted in rudely. "That's enough, Coil." The female snapped, getting fed up. "I will do the talking." She then turned to Pup, who still had his happy go lucky smile on. "Pup." "Hawk." Hawk squinted her eyes at him. It didn't damper Pup's mood whatsoever. "Where you?" "At Rosemary Park. Why?" Hawk face palmed. "Pup, Rosemary Park is only five kilometers from here. Why'd it take you so long to get there, and come back?" He smiled even wider, if that was even possible for the mysterious young teenager. "I was observing two people as they aimlessly wandered around the park. The first one was a guy, but he left as soon as the sun set on day one. The second was a girl who sat and meditated under the big apple tree in the center of the park until this morning before leaving." Hawk blinked in surprise at him. No one ever left their homes after nightfall, and people rarely ever left the safety of their houses. "Don't be ridiculous, Pup. No one ever leaves their precious safety unless they need food and water." The blonde headed one said, after staying silent this whole time. Pup frowned at this. "Chameleon is right. No one ever leaves shelter. What makes these people so special?" Hawk agreed. "But I'm telling the truth! These two were strange looking." Coil, Twig and Hawk quirked an eyebrow, curious now. "The guy had a white jacket open with this weird Chinese letter on the back of it, and white baggy pants! He had bandages wrapped around his legs, and Egyptian looking black shoes, plus he wore a red ribbon around his forehead like a ninja tie!" Twig widened her eyes as Pup continued. "Then the second one had really long blonde hair in low pigtails! She was wearing a gray shirt under a dark green, open jacket, and her pants were dark blue! She also had this really strange black clothe belt tied around her torso!" "Pup, they were cosplayers. Those two are made up. Characters." Hawk interrupted in annoyance. "But-" "No buts, Pup. They were some stupid, cocky cosplayers. End of story." With that, Hawk disappeared into the darkness of the shop. Twig and Chameleon followed her, Leaving Coil and Pup together alone in the main area of the shop. Coil sat down, pulled out a knife and grabbed a stray bit of wood laying on the ground, starting to whittle at it. Pup heaved a silent sigh. He was so certain that those two weren't cosplayers.