Chapter 1- They Meet
It seemed to be a normal day for the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fourteen year old, girl Akina. She lived in the city of Tokyo on the island of Japan in the western Pacific Ocean. She is pretty fit for her age, so she jogs the mile to get to school every morning to stay that way. Then she goes through the school day, acing any test that get administered, barely having a conversation with any student at all, except after school at cross country practice, where the girls there are her only 'friends' in the entire neighborhood. She is greatly admired there since she has lead the team to many victories, coming in 2nd, 3rd, and even 1st place some meets. Her mile time is just about seven minutes, since she jogs everywhere. After that, she jogs home another mile and studies for the next test. Then she goes out for a three mile jog, to keep up with the three mile long cross country races.
One evening during her three mile jog, she got horrible cramps in her stomach after jogging only a mile. It must have been what she had eaten for lunch that day. She decided to take a short cut through an alleyway to get back home quicker so she could rest. As she was jogging through, she thought that someone was following her. As Akina turned around, she heard a very loud, startling,"ROWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!" She had been scared the crap out of a black and white alley cat that was passing through. After that, it meandered it's way out of the alley.
When Akina turned back around to continue jogging, there was a little boy about half her size running fast by her. As he passed by, he dropped a red and white book which fell right front of her. The boy ran away without revealing his identity. Akina picked up the book and it glowed red as she tried to read it, but it was written in a totally different language that she couldn't understand." What the heck could this be for?" she wondered to herself about the mysterious, glowing book and the child. Since her cramp was now going away, she ran around for another ten to fifteen minutes trying to find the boy, but he had disappeared. By now her cramp had come back even worse then before, so she had to make her way back home to rest and hope that the boy would come back for the book.