DARK- Chapter 1: Aftermath

Narrator: The signs. The people of this world believe in an endless amount of signs that govern all of our destinies. It's their religion, you can say. But others decide to use the signs as a power source. A military facility called DARK handpicked a select group of warriors from the army, navy, and marines and turned them into the HORDE. DARK rearranged their DNA to give them special powers. What they didn't know is that their signs determined what powers they were given. For a while, they were winning all the war they were encountered with, and we were all living really comfortable lives. Though, with great good...comes even greater evil. An unknown enemy from an unknown place with an unknown source erected it's own armada. The world had never seen anything like it. The HORDE soldiers started to lose the fight, and the evil armada seemed unstopable. They begin to terrorize everything for no apparent reason. No...Apparent...REASON. DARK decided to kick it up a knotch. They had a seperate band of HORDE soldiers that were far better than all the rest. The citizens came to know them as the Heroes. The war then got even more dangerous. The Heroes and the armada fought hard for a long, long time and brought destruction with them. Before the war was even over, our country was left in ruins. People tried to find ways to help the Heroes...donating money and such...but alas, this is no cartoon, or movie, or fairy tale. This is the real world. This is the real world. The donations didn't help and the numbers of the HORDE began to crumble. After years, and years of war...evil prevailed. All of the HORDE soldiers were killed, and many of the Heroes. And the Heroes that weren't killed...vanished. The armada decided to take it one step further and they destroyed the DARK facility. All of the chemicals that were used in the mutation process to power the HORDE. Some people were immune, some were mutated themselves. Others developed irremediable diseases, and others...died. Even worse, the country was ruled by evil. Oh well...at least the wars over.

(dream)Akemi: Hiromi. Hiromi! Help us Hiromi! They're hurting us! HELP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Hiromi: Akemi!! Oh...just a dream. Probably a side affect of the pills. Whatever...can't be thinking about bullcrap dreams before a fight.(phone rings)

Hiromi: Hello, HIromi...what?!...that's bullshit, I can't miss this fight!...I don't need sleep, I need coin!...okay whatever, can youo get me anything?...No way, no promotions...'cause I hate those damn things!...well--well that's just great!...that's just fucking great!!...okay, okay...sorry for yelling at you...no it's no problem, really...okay, bye.(hangs up phone)

Hiromi: Shit, now how am I supposed to pay rent?

Hiromi(thinking): Akemi. What are you doing right now? Where are you?

Akemi: I'm running right now Hiromi. Running away.

Akemi(thinking): I'm lucky i got away, but they're still gonna chase me down. Even now they know where I am. Still, I can't believe they all died at the hands of one guy. He bore the sign of The Soul, but who was he?

(Akemi's flashback): Akemi! Run! You--you can't stop him! Run!! AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!(blade pierces skin)

Akemi: NO! I just need to stop thinking about it, and keep moving.

Akemi(thinking): Hiromi. I hope you're alright.

Narrator: NO one was free from the blast. Even the young were affected.

Teacher: Class, attention! Today we have a new student!

Chitose(thinking): ...new student? Great...I hate noobs.