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Our first fic... Made by me and my sister, LOL

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Renewed Contract

Prologue

Unknown Time & Place

The sound of footsteps could be heard in the darkness. There's nothing in the place. Only nothingness could be sensed. It is a place that couldn't be explained. The place was filled with a white-gray fog. She couldn't see clearly in that place because of the thick fog. It looked like the floor had some pool of waters. Some of it had red color, the bloody red color like.

Suddenly the sound of the footsteps stopped. There, stood a young woman who has a short silver hair and a pair of glowing golden eyes. She wore a blue dress from head to toe. A hat, an elbow long gloves, knee high boots, black stockings and a knee high dress. She seemed to be holding a very thick book.

She looked around her. It seems she wasn't bothered or afraid seeing the red pool and the fog around her that makes people unable to see the direction. It was really quiet in there. In front of her was a giant door with a human statue being chained in the center of it, sealing something within the giant door.

"Bingo~!" said the woman breaking the silence in the darkness. She stepped closer to the giant door and put her hand on the door.

"I've finally found you." She said while smiling.

Some roaring could be heard out of the blue and there was a quake in that place. She didn't flinch a bit! She could stand still easily even with the quake happening.

A monstrous figure appeared out of the mist behind her. It has 2 heads, one on the front and the other one behind it. The monster roared ferociously towards the woman. She seemed to be not afraid of the monster.

"It appears that there's an uninvited guest here." the woman uttered as she looked at the beast from the corner of her eye.

"Could you wait for me until I finished this? I'll take care of this thing first and then I'll release you. I promise it will be quick, Okay~?" said the woman with a smile. She then started charging in to the beast.

December 26th, 2012

6:25 P.M.

The sound of the speeding train could be heard very loud in the ears. A young man with silver bowl cut hair and handsome face was sitting alone in the train. He was wearing a gray shirt, black jacket and black trousers.

He put one of his elbows on the armchair and put his palm on his cheek, looking at the sight from the train windows next to him.

"It's been 9 months since I left this town and 'that' incident. Time sure flies away." he thought.

He started to take something from his bag. He took out a picture. He smiled as he looked at it. The picture seemed very precious to him.

"Hmmm… I wonder how everyone's doing… Well, I will know when I get there."

He started to feel sleepy. "I think I lacked some sleep… I've been busy since the start of this week. I'm still tired after the closing ceremony at school this morning. Should I get some sleep now?" he thought to himself.

A blue butterfly appeared flying in front of him. He felt something familiar with it. He tried to remember where he had seen it before.

"I've seen this blue butterfly before, but where had I seen it... Ugh, I can't think anymore. I'm too tired…" he thought as he started to wonder to the dream world.

The blue butterfly disappeared into thin air after the man fell asleep while he was still holding the picture firmly in his hand.

Dream World, December 26th 2012

In the dream, the young man was standing on a large bridge. The sky has a full moon that luminous an eerie yellow-green light and there were no one except him and lots of coffins. Around him were pools of blood like red liquid. Even the sea was red.

'Another weird dream?' he thought with a sigh.

Suddenly a blue butterfly flew in front of him. He began to try to remember where he had seen it. He thought for sure that he had seen it in his other dreams before. He had been having similar dreams since last week. He decided to follow the blue butterfly, walking past the bridge. When he was walking he heard someone crying. He searched for the source of the voice. Then he saw a car burning. He quickly ran to the car to see if what had happened.

He saw a blue haired boy, about seven years old sitting and crying beside the burning car. The boy was holding a body of a dead girl. It seems like it's the body of his sister. His parents were also dead. He tried to grab the boy's shoulder but something unexpected happened. His hand ran passed through the boy's body. He was taken aback. Suddenly everything dispersed into a dust, sending him to the darkness.

"Ugh… What's happening?" he said to himself.

When he looked at his front, there was a big giant door. "What is that?"

He walked closer to the door and tried to examine it. The door had eye like carvings engraved on it. Each of the eyes was looking into a different direction. He noticed that in the center of the door was a humanlike statue being chained. When he put his hand on the door, the eye carvings suddenly turned their stare to him and he could hear the screams of many humans.

The screams were terrible. They were complaining about their lives, about how they want everything to be ended, their lives, the world. The voices were wishing for death. It shot the pain into the man head, made him fell into his knee, clinging to his head.

"What… is this? It… hurts… Stop it…!" he tried to struggle against the voices.

"Whoa… I'm surprised you could still stand up after hearing those voices." said an unknown figure which appeared out of nowhere.

The voice was coming from behind him and apparently, it was a child's voice.

'What?' the man thought. He turned his head to look behind him and found a young boy with a short black hair. He was wearing white and black striped clothes like a prisoner.

"Normal people would have fainted and lost his heart after touching that door and hearing the voices. It's best for you to not touch it again… That is… If you want to continue to live." said the boy with a smirk in his face.

The silver haired boy was now standing up. Half of the pain in his head had now gone but his head was still dizzy. "Who… Are you?" asked the man, curiously and confused, after what had happened.

"You don't need to know about me." Answer the boy with a chuckle.

"Then can you tell me what this place is? Where am I?"

"This place, huh? Well, this place is a dimension, separating the reality and the world of dreams. It exists between minds and matters. This is the place where Nyx is sealed." the boy answered.

"Nyx? What's... Nyx? Why is it sealed in here?" he asked the boy again.

The boy chuckled and replied, "I can't answer that question right now. You'll learn about it in time, Onii-san."

"What about the door? Is Nyx sealed behind it?"

Hearing that, the boy giggled slightly and asked the man, "Hmm… Do you want to hear a story? A story about a hero who saved the world by sacrificing himself to saved humanity."

'What?' the man thought as he staggered a bit. He was now confused.

"He was a 17 years old ordinary guy. He had a blue hair and silver eyes. He went to save the world with his friends. He did save the world, but at what cost?"

'This… story' the pair of silver eyes was now widened. 'This story, it is the same as the story that Margaret told me after I defeated her!' the man thought.

"He be…" the boy continued his story, but he got cut by the man's voice.

"Wait! How did you know about that story?"

Chuckling, the boy said, "Of course I know about it, because… I was there when it happened."

The man shivered as he saw the boy's smiled.

"It is time for you to wake up, Onii-san. I shouldn't hold you here any longer. Time flies in the real world. Your mind and body won't be able to endure the pain anymore if you continue to stay here after touching that door."

The man's vision started to blur. His head got very dizzy and he fell to the floor.

"No one can escape time. It delivers us all to the same end. You can't plug your ears and cover your eyes." The boy said as his surroundings blurred with mist. "And so it begins."

"See you later!" the boy said as the man started to lose his consciousness.

December 26th, 2012

11:55 P.M.

"Inaba… Inaba… Inaba... We have arrived at Inaba. Please check your belongings before you leave the train. Thank you for riding with us. We hope you'll be back and ride with us again."

The man snapped up from his slumber.

"Ngh…. What was that weird dream? It felt really real. What is Nyx anyway? *sigh* Oh well, I think I should probably get going. Thinking about it really hurts my head." he thought while wiping the sweat of his forehead. He quickly packed up all of his things before he got up from his seat, not forgetting his precious picture.

He walked out of the train and saw that the train station was already empty. Almost nobody was there. It was already quite empty because it's almost 12 o'clock midnight after all. He decided to head to his uncle's house as quickly as possible. He walked to fast that he bumped into someone. All of his things are now scattered everywhere because of the hard impact between the two of them. It knocked both of them down.

"Ouch..." a sound escaping his lips. He quickly got up and patted the dusts on his pants from the floor. The man who bumped into him also did the same thing. He decided to examine the man who bumped into him.

He was wearing a white shirt, a yellow colored scarf and cap, and also a pair of black pants. He can't really see the face of the man because of the cap he wore.

"Ow... I'm sorry about that. I didn't see you there." the man said with an apologetic smile while fixing his cap.

Blinking, he said, "Oh, it's all right, it's my fault for not paying attention."

He seemed to be not bothered or angry by this. To tell the truth, He was still dizzy and confused after what had happened in his dream. He then started to pick up his things that were scattered on the floor.

"Ah! I'll help too!" said the man quickly after he saw what he did. He started to help picking up his things.

After they picked up all of the things, the silverette said his thanks to the man. He then offered his hand to help the man stands up. When he offered his hand, he saw that the man was looking straight to his face.

The man took the offer and stand up. He was now able to see the man's face more clearly. The man had a smile on his face.

For a moment, he saw a hallucination in the man's face. There was a really creepy face. The face was pale white and there were no eyeballs in both of the eyeholes. The face was smiling widely and wickedly. A few seconds later, the hallucination was gone. He was quite staggered by what he had just seen a moment ago.

'What was that…?'

"Thank you. I have to get going now. See you later." said the man as he walked passed by the silverette.

He turned his head around to see if the man was still there, but he wasn't. The man had already disappeared into the darkness of the night. He remembered what the man had just said.

"'See you later'? What did he mean by that?" thought him. Pain suddenly shot his head again.

"Guh... I think I should stop thinking about this for now. The more I think about this, my headache got worst. I had better get to uncle Dojima's house before I collapse in this place, and it isn't funny if I really do collapse in here. I'll be robbed for sure."

Somewhere in a nearby alleyway near the train station

December 27th, 2012

00:01 A.M.

"Have you got the things?" asked a young boy to the young man who had just showed up.

The young man removed his cap and said, "Yeah, here you go."

He threw some things to the boy and the boy grabbed them easily.

"So… his name is Seta Souji, huh? He's a very interesting person," the boy said after looking at the ID card he got from the man.

"His friends are also interesting. Let's wait and see what they can do." He said while looking at the picture.

"Yeah, he's a really interesting person. I can't wait to meet him and his friends in the near future. He reminds me of him." the young man said.

"Well, you should wait patiently, Ryouji-kun. I do hope he won't forget about us though."

"Heh… Are you feeling lonely Pharos?" Ryouji said while lifting his head to see the moon in the sky. "'Cause I'm a bit lonely without 'him' being here." he continued.

"You are me, you know? You should be able to tell how I'm feeling right now, idiot." Pharos said while looking to his feet.

"Oops. I forgot about that. Heheh." Ryouji said smiling. "So, shall we get going?"

"Of course, let's pick him up from that place."

After that conversation, they both vanished into the darkness of the night, leaving traces of dark mists as they did.

~End of Prologue~

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