Sometimes, vampires and other creatures liked to control the night. Humans are unaware of this little detail. Sometimes a human finds out, but something got done about it. Humans died if they knew too much or their memories were just erased.
But that was years in the past. Now humans knew that the monsters that they liked to make books and movies about were real. And the fact that they could live in harmony with these creatures was a shock to the humans. They just didn't expect that to happen.
Now, to tell the truth, there are times when a human or creature attacks another person of a different kind, and then a group of people step in. They are Aka Hoshi, or Red Star.
Aka Hoshi is made up of different kinds of people, human and nonhuman. They are an organization that tries to keep the peace in the world. They fought others to keep it for the past few years.
They are secretive about their members. No one knows who they are unless they are in Aka Hoshi. Now, every once in a while, a member goes rogue and tells people some of the identities. They and the ones they told are silenced instantly. This is how the members stay safe.
Now, the fighting others was what bothered most people. They wanted to live in harmony, but that wasn't possible if someone always did something that was bad and needed to be put down. That's why Aka Hoshi was started. To bring down the bad guys.
When a member of Aka Hoshi goes rogue, other members go after him or her to ensure that he or she doesn't cause trouble. They didn't need mass murderers on the loose when they had enough going around.
That was one job that no Aka Hoshi member hoped to get. Fighting someone who was on the same fighting level or higher and that had the same training as they did wasn't something anyone wanted to do. Even when it was a member of a species with more strength and speed. That was when you were screwed and had a death wish, because the only ones that went rogue were the more experienced members.
Normally, they were taken out in a matter of hours, but as the years passed, they learned how to disappear off of the radar. That was why there were still some that were never taken care of. They ran the city, killing as they pleased. Coming and going when they wanted. It was chaos. It was not a good thing for the Aka Hoshi.
The human police started to step into the Aka Hoshi affairs a few years ago, but nothing good came out of it. They just ended up dieing when they went up against one of the rogues. Not one person didn't suffer at the rogue's mercy. No one made it out alive.
But there was a special force in the Aka Hoshi. It was made of the most experienced and well-trained members of the group. They called themselves The Darkness. They are stealthy and quick. When they are needed, they show up and do their job. They never say a word, and they never show their faces. They always hide behind masks shaped as animal heads with weird designs on them. No one knows who they are, not even fellow members of the Aka Hoshi. They had never given out that info to even the most trusted members. The only ones that knew what their identities were other members of The Darkness, their boss, and the leader of Aka Hoshi.
As good as these people are, there are still those who leave even after they are a member of The Darkness. When someone leaves that group, their identity is revealed to other members of Aka Hoshi and only then.
Now, it is a race against time to kill those who oppose the Aka Hoshi and who would do harm to others.