Prologue

"There are many worlds, but they all share the same sky– one sky, one destiny..."

One such world, the one that I'm writing about, isn't so different from the one you or I know and live on. In this world is the small town of Faite. It has shops and houses and schools like every other town, but something is special about it.

In this town lives a boy named Ero. He's an normal sixteen-year-old boy who goes to Faite High school. He's in the band and makes average grades, he also has many friends. But, what this town, and what this boy doesn't know is that an epic adventure is about to unfold...

Chapter one

"Here we go, another show to put on," thought Ero as he got ready to go on the field for the marching band show that night. He was anxious but at the same time nervous, he always was before a performance.

"MARK TIME, MARK!" shouted the drum major, Erinn. The band moved together onto the field, then separated to go to their spots, still keeping an even tempo. After a minute, the band reached their spots on the field. Erinn got onto her podium and waited until everyone was ready. She gave the signal and the band began to play.

They started off strong and had a good sound. They kept in step and their movements were crisp. The show was going great, It was the best the band had sounded so far that year. Everyone was on time and had a good sound.

Ero was excited by how well everyone was doing. He felt that they couldn't be better that night.

The band finished the first song and moved to the next song, they were playing great!

Suddenly though the sky went dark and the lights went out. Before the band could stop members started running into each other and falling over. It was very dark and hard to see. The stands erupted into a mass of chattering, curious people.

"What's going on?" thought Ero as he looked around trying to find people.

"Oof!" Said Ero as he ran into someone. It was Jayk, his friend who was on drumline.

"Hey Jayk, Do you know what's going on?" asked Ero.

"No idea man," said Jayk in response.

Then they heard footsteps running toward them.

"Hey, Ero, Jayk, what's going on here??" It was Aeralia.

"We don't know," They both said.

Suddenly They heard a rumbling and the ground shook. The crowd in the stands started to panic. After the shaking ended black spots on the ground began to appear. Then these creatures began to come out of the darkness.

"What are those things?!" said Ero, alarmed.

"I don't know but something tells me we should get out of here be for it's-"

"Too late!" said Aeralia interrupting Jayk.

The things started to attack them. Ero and the others began to fight them off with there instruments. Ero with his flute, Jayk with his drumsticks and Aeralia with her trumpet.

"Help!" They heard a cry from within the darkness.

"C'mon! That sounded like Emma!" Shouted Ero.

The three ran over to where the heard the scream. There they found Emma and Jamie surrounded by the creatures. On the other side of them Mitch ran up carrying his Baritone. Emma was brandishing her Clarinet in a defensive way but Jamie had lost her mellophone in the darkness. Ero and party started to bash away the 'things' on one side while Mitch did the same on the other. After a while they cleared a path to the girls.

"Hurry! Lets head to my house!" Shouted Ero while fighting off one of the creatures.

Ero lived across the street from the school, making it the closest refuge. The group of now six fought their way off the field, helping people as they went, and made it to the road. There were still some of the creatures there but not as many as in the stadium.

The group followed Ero to his house and went inside. It seemed as if it hadn't been touch yet.

"Mom, Karen, are you here? Are you okay?" Shouted Ero as he lead the group to his room. There was no response.

On the way down the hall Ero checked his sister Karen's room, which was right before his. No one was there. He told everyone to go into his room and then ran down the hall to his mom's room. Again, no one there.

He met back up with everyone in his room and started digging around for weapons.

"We need some real weapons if we're gonna have to fight these things, whatever they are," Said Ero, still digging. "Aha!" He said pulling a gleaming katana out of his closet, "This will be mine."

"What about me?" Asked Jayk, "Preferably something like my drumsticks."

"Hmm," Ero looked around his room, "oh! Here," He pulled down a dagger and a short sword from a rack.

"Okay, well ill use this," Mitch took a katana that was left on the rack.

"What about us then?" Chimed the girls.

Ero looked around. In his floor he spotted a ball that had an elastic cord attached to it that could strap to the wrist.

"Here Aeralia, Use this," he said picking it up and handing it to her. He continued to look around and saw a miniature baseball bat he had gotten at a souvenir shop. He picked it up and handed it to Jamie. "Here you go, Jamie."

Emma looked around and saw a bamboo pole leaning in a corner. "I could probably use this then," She said getting the pole.

"All right then, we all have our weapons. Lets go figure out what's going on," Said Ero opening the door. The ran out in the hall and toward the door when suddenly, a cloaked man appeared out of the darkness...